CNG 100, Lot: 257. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (19mm, 7.62 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 494 (AD 197/8). BACIΛЄωC CAVPOMATOV, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Septimius Severus right; trident to right; ΔЧV (date) below. Frolova p. 176 and pl. XXXII, 16 (same dies as illustration); Anokhin 575б (same rev. die as illustration); MacDonald 505/4. VF, toned, light scratch on the reverse, some edge smoothing.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Classical Numismatic Auctions XXI (26 June 1992), lot 77.