CNG 100, Lot: 262. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis II, with Elagabalus. AD 211/2-226/7. EL Stater (19mm, 7.55 g, 1h). Dated Bosporan Era 516 (AD 219/20). BACIΛEωC PHCKOVΠOPIΔOC, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Rhescuporis right; sword to right / Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Elagabalus right; ςIΦ (date) below. Frolova p. 207 and pl. XLVII, 28-9 (same dies as illustrations; as Rhescuporis III); cf. Anokhin 636 (each figure seen from behind); MacDonald 559/1 (this coin cited and illustrated). VF, toned.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Kölner Münzkabinett 39 (18 November 1985), lot 15.