Triton XIX, Lot: 2049. Estimate $7500. Sold for $22500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Asander. As king, circa 43-16 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.08 g, 12h). Dated RY 21 (27/6 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΣANΔPOY, Nike, holding wreath in extended right hand, palm frond in left, standing left on prow left; AK (date) to inner left. Frolova & Ireland § 6, 39 (O16/R24) = Natwoka 18a and 19a [same coin] = Zograph pl. XLIV, 6 = K.V. Golenko, “The Staters of Asander in the 20 years of his Reign” in NE X (1972), 3 = A.L. Bertier de la Garde, Materials for Weight Research on the Monetary Systems of Sarmatia and Tauric Chersonese (Moskow, 1913), p. 105, 32 (1) (this coin, illustrated in all); Anokhin 1335 (this coin illustrated); MacDonald 210 (this coin illustrated); RPC I 1857; HGC 7, 201; DCA 447. Good VF, a few minor edge marks, struck from worn obverse die. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part II, Numismatic Fine Arts & Leu, 16 October 1984), lot 237, purchased from Wayte Raymond, 17 April 1926; Rous Collection (Bourgey, 29 May 1911), lot 157; Grand Duke Alexander Mikhailovich Collection.