CNG 100, Lot: 253. Estimate $500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Eupator, with Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. AD 154/5-circa 172/3. EL Stater (18mm, 7.60 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 459 (AD 162/3). BACIΛЄωC ЄVΠATOPOC, diademed and draped bust of Eupator right / Bareheaded busts of Lucius Verus, draped, and Marcus Aurelius, with pellet at truncation of neck, facing one another; pellet between, ΘNV (date) below. Frolova p. 160 and pl. XXV, 37-8 (same dies as illustrations) = RPC IV online 3742.9 and 3742.12, respectively; Anokhin 538a; MacDonald 469/2 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned, light edge smoothing.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex M. Vernon Sheldon Collection (Bowers & Merena, 9 April 1983), lot 2639.