CNG 84, Lot: 593. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Sauromates II. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. Base AV Stater (18mm, 6.25 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 496 (AD 199/200). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Septimius Severus right, vis-à-vis laureate and draped bust of Caracalla left; crescent between, ς(retrograde P)V (date) below. Frolova II dies E/e; MacDonald 507/7; Anokhin 577b; BMC 12 var. (symbol on rev.). Near EF, toned.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.