CNG 100, Lot: 260. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus or Caracalla. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (19mm, 7.72 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 506 (AD 209/10). BACIΛЄωC CAVPOMATOV, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Roman emperor (with features of both Septimius Severus and Caracalla) right; to right, bird standing left; ςΦ (date) below. Frolova p. 181 and pl. XXXIV, 25-6 (same dies as illustrations); Anokhin 585a; MacDonald 514. Near VF, a few deposits.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Davisson’s 3 (3 May 1994), lot 1, for a hammer of $375.