CNG 100, Lot: 248. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates I, with Hadrian. AD 93/4-123/4. AV Stater (18mm, 7.79 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 413 (AD 116/7). BACIΛЄωC CAYPOMATOY, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Hadrian right; ΓIY (date) below. Frolova p. 108 and pl. VI, 8 = Anokhin 406б (same dies as illustration); MacDonald 387/3 (this coin cited and illustrated). Good VF, toned. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 8 October 1985), lot 322.