CNG 111, Lot: 497. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (20mm, 7.82 g, 12h). Dated BE 496 (AD 199/200). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Septimius right; trident to right, ς(retrograde P)V (date) below. Frolova dies B/a (unlisted combination); MacDonald 507; Anokhin 1824 (this coin cited and illustrated). EF, struck slightly off center.

Ex Goldberg 36 (29 May 2006), lot 3510; Gorny & Mosch 146 (6 March 2006), lot 347.