CNG 100, Lot: 252. Estimate $750. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Eupator, with Antoninus Pius. AD 154/5-circa 172/3. AV Stater (19mm, 7.78 g, 2h). Dated Bosporan Era 455 (AD 158/9). BACIΛЄωC ЄVΠATOPOC, diademed and draped bust of Eupator right / Laureate head of Antoninus Pius right, with pellet at truncation of neck; ЄNY (date) below. Frolova p. 158 and pl. XXIV, 34 (same rev. die as illustration) = RPC IV online 3736.1; Anokhin 534a; MacDonald 465/2 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, a few edge cracks and light edge smoothing.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 7 October 1986), lot 305.