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455, Lot: 223. Estimate $500.
Sold for $450. 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 (20mm, 7.91 g, 11h). Dated Bosporan Era 495 (AD 198/9). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Septimius Severus, on left, and bust of Caracalla, draped, vis-à-vis; crescent between, ЄЧV (date) below. MacDonald 506/11; Anokhin 576b var. (without crescent). Lightly toned, some light scratches and marks, minor deposits. VF.


From the J.B. Collection. Ex Marc Melcher Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 61, 25 September 2002), lot 1036.