CNG 100, Lot: 264. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis II, with Severus Alexander. AD 211/2-226/7. EL Stater (20mm, 7.57 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 520 (AD 223/4). BACIΛЄωC PHCKOVΠOPIΔOC, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Rhescuporis right / Laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Severus Alexander right; six-pointed star to right; KΦ (date) below. Frolova p. 212 and pl. XLIX, 20 (this coin cited and illustrated; as Rhescuporis III); Anokhin 640б (same rev. die as illustration); MacDonald 563/5. VF, a few minor edge cracks.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from M. Louis Teller, August 1982.