452, Lot: 619. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus and Caracalla. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (19mm, 7.88 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 495 (AD 198/9). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate busts of Septimius Severus, on left, and Caracalla, both draped and cuirassed, vis-à-vis; crescent between, ЄЧV (date) below. MacDonald 506/10; Anokhin 576e. Lightly toned. Good VF.