CNG 102, Lot: 729. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis II, with Septimius Severus or Caracalla. AD 211/2-226/7. EL Stater (20mm, 7.56 g, 12h). Dated BE 508 (AD 211/2). Diademed and draped bust of Rhescuporis right / Laureate head of emperor right; trident before, HΦ (date) below. Frolova dies A/– (obv. die for year 509, unlisted rev. die); MacDonald 551/4. VF.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Cederlind 174 (22 May 2014), no. 149; Gorny & Mosch 138 (7 March 2005), lot 1687.

The staters from the years 507 and 508 of the Bosporan Era have very ambiguous portraits on the reverse – sometimes more closely resembling Septimius Severus, other times Caracalla, and very often featuring a hybrid of the two.