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CNG 100, Lot: 249. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Cotys II, with Hadrian. AD 123/4-132/3. AV Stater (18mm, 7.75 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 420 (AD 123/4). BACIΛЄωC KOTYOC, diademed and draped bust of Cotys right / Laureate head of Hadrian right, with pellet at truncation of neck; KV (date) below. Frolova p. 134 and pl. VI, 4-7 & 9 (same dies as illustrations); Anokhin 471 (same dies as illustration [though the referenced specimen is of different dies]); MacDonald 422. EF, toned.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 8 October 1985), lot 324.