CNG 100, Lot: 267. Estimate $300. Sold for $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Cotys III, with Severus Alexander. AD 227/8-233/4. EL Stater (19mm, 7.63 g, 1h). Dated Bosporan Era 525 (AD 228/9). BACIΛЄωC KOTYOC, diademed and draped bust of Cotys right / Laureate head of Severus Alexander right; pellet to right; ЄKΦ (date) below. Frolova pp. 222-3 and pl. LIV, 32-3 & pl. LV, 1-3, 13, and 23 (all from same obv. die); Anokhin 655a; MacDonald 574/2 (this coin cited and illustrated). Near VF, die break on the obverse.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from CNG, May 1991.