Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 962. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus. 174-211 AD. AV Stater (7.72 gm, 1h). Dated 494 of the Bosporan Era (197/8 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Severus right; trident before, date below. MacDonald 505/4; Anokhin 575b; Frolova p. 176, E/e 1 (same obv. die). VF. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Empire Coins FPL 49 (1989), lot 2; Malter XLII (9 September 1989), lot 429.