376, Lot: 346. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis IV, with Gallienus. Circa AD 242/3-276/7. BI Stater (21mm, 6.57 g, 12h). Dated year 561 of the Bosporan Era (AD 264/5). Diademed and draped bust of Rhescuporis right; trident before / Laureate and draped bust of Gallienus right; I before, AΞΦ (date) below. MacDonald 620/3. VF, find patina.
From MacDonald (p. 112): “In 561 BE = AD 264/265, the denomination mark I (= 10) appeared on staters. The mark continued into the next year, when it was replaced by the denomination mark K (= 20), which continued to appear through BE 654 = 267/268. Many K denominations staters are struck over the earlier I denomination staters.”