Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 1036. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $675. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Marcus Aurelius. 174-211 AD. AV Stater (7.80 gm). Dated year 472 of the Bosporan Era (175/6 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Aurelius right; spear before, date below. MacDonald 485; Anokhin 550 (obverse die of 556 [BE 473]); Frolova pg. 168, A[BE 473]/b. Good VF, small flan crack. ($500)

There is a three year gap between the reigns of Eupator and Sauromates when no dated staters are known. Therefore, the exact end of Eupator's reign and the beginning of Sauromates' is unknown.