A Run of Choice Bosporan Staters

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 454. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Cotys II, with Hadrian. AD 123/4-132/3. AV Stater (7.83 g, 12h). Dated 425 BE (AD 128/9). BACILЄwC KOTYOC, diademed and draped bust of Cotys right / Laureate head of Hadrian right, trace of globe at point of bust; ЄKV (date) below. Cf. Frolova p. 135 (unlisted dies, but this obv. die listed as die A for year 423 BE, Frolova p. 134, pl. XV, 15); MacDonald 426; Anokhin 475. EF. Important unlisted die link between issues of years 423 and 425 BE.

From a North American Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2004), lot 1029.