CNG 100, Lot: 259. Estimate $500. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus and Caracalla. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (18mm, 7.78 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 495 (AD 198/9). BACIΛЄωC CAVPOMATOV, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate busts of Septimius Severus and Caracalla, draped, facing one another; trident between, ЄЧV (date) below. Frolova p. 177 and pl. XXXIII, 15 (same obv. die as illustration); Anokhin 576д; MacDonald 506/9 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, reverse struck slightly off center, possibly gilt and ex jewelry.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 9 October 1984), lot 261, for a hammer of £280.