Sale: Triton VI, Lot: 558. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 13 January 2003.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus and Caracalla. 172-211 AD. EL Stater (7.79 gm). Dated year 495 (198/199 AD). BACILEWC CAVPOMATOY, diademed and draped bust right / Laureate head right of Septimius vis à vis laureate head left of Caracalla; pellet between, EPY (date) below. Frolova pg. 176, pl. 32, 24 (dies A/c); Anokin 579B var. Near EF/EF. Exceptional portraits of Septimius and Caracalla. ($1000)

From the Marc Melcher Collection. Ex Triton III (1 December 1999), lot 750.