CNG 100, Lot: 241. Estimate $2000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Cotys I, with Claudius and Nero as Caesar. AD 45/6-68/9. AV Stater (20mm, 7.82 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 349 (AD 52/3). Laureate head of Claudius right / Laureate and draped bust of Nero right; monogram to left, ΘMT (date) below. Frolova & Ireland § 14, p. 75 and pls. LI, 22-4 & LII, 1 (same obv. die); Anokhin 335; MacDonald 317 (this coin cited and illustrated); RPC I 1915 (same obv. die as illustration). Good VF, toned, struck from a worn obverse die.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 9 October 1984), lot 240, for a hammer of £700.