CNG 100, Lot: 250. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Cotys II, with Hadrian. AD 123/4-132/3. AV Stater (19mm, 7.74 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 428 (AD 131/2). BACIΛЄωC KOTYOC, diademed and draped bust of Cotys right; to right, club downward / Laureate head of Hadrian right; HKY (date) below. Frolova p. 136 and pl. XV, 27-9; Anokhin 478a (same dies as illustration, for all four); MacDonald 429/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 8 October 1985), lot 326.