CNG 100, Lot: 247. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates I, with Trajan. AD 93/4-123/4. AV Stater (19mm, 7.77 g, 11h). Dated Bosporan Era 407 (AD 110/1). BACIΛЄωC CAYPOMATOY, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Trajan right; ZY (date) below. Frolova p. 107 = Bertier, Materiali 168 ≈ Anokhin 401 (this coin cited and illustrated) = MacDonald 382 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned. Extremely rare, and possibly the only known example.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 9 October 1984), lot 246, for a hammer of £450.