Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 959. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Commodus. 174-211 AD. AV Stater (7.74 gm, 1h). Dated 485 of the Bosporan Era (189/90 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate and draped bust of Commodus right; star before, date below. MacDonald 496/2; Anokhin 566a; Frolova p. 171, C/c 1 (same dies). VF, a few marks. ($400)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Triton III (30 November-1 December 1999), lot 744.