Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 408. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BOSPOROS, Phanagoria. Circa late 2nd century BC. Æ 22mm (6.92 gm). Head of Artemis right, bow and quiver over shoulder; countermark: grain ear in incuse square / Recumbent stag left. SNG BM Black Sea 1000; SNG Stancomb 624; Anokhin 194; De Callataÿ pl. 50, D; SNG Copenhagen 5. Good VF, grayish-green patina. ($200)

Struck during the early reign of Mithradates VI of Pontos, probably during or shortly after the second expedition of Diophantes.