Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 958. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Eupator, with Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus. 154-171 AD. AV Stater (7.70 gm, 12h). Dated 462 of the Bosporan Era (165/6 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Eupator right / Laureate and draped bust of Aurelius and laureate head of Verus vis-à-vis; spear in field between, date below. MacDonald 472/1 (this coin); Anokhin 541 var. (star in reverse field); Frolova p. 164, 2. VF. Apparently unique. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Empire Coins FPL 49 (1989), lot 1; Malter XLII (9 September 1989), lot 428; The Property of a Russian Nobleman [Prince Catacuzino] (Sotheby & Co., 2 June 1924), lot 269.

Two of the three examples Frolova records with this date have the star in the field: one formerly in the Hermitage (now lost); the other reported by Bertier de la Garde in Munich (also lost). This coin, the third, is the only one known with a spear.