CNG 100, Lot: 271. Estimate $300. Sold for $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates III, with Severus Alexander. AD 229/30-231/2. Base EL Stater (18mm, 7.33 g, 2h). Dated Bosporan Era 527 (AD 230/1). BACIΛЄωC CAYPOMATOY, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate and draped bust of Severus Alexander right; three pellets to right; ZKΦ (date) below. Frolova p. 229 and pl. LVIII, 8 (same rev. die as illustration); Anokhin 666г; MacDonald 586/6. VF, toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica C (11 March 1993), lot 1430, for a hammer of ChF 420.