Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 963. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $925. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus and Caracalla. 174-211 AD. AV Stater (7.75 gm, 12h). Dated 495 of the Bosporan Era (198/9 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right; club before / Laureate head of Aurelius and laureate, draped, and cuirassed bust of Caracalla vis-à-vis, date below. MacDonald 506/6; Anokhin 576c; Frolova p. 177, E/g. Good VF. ($500)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection.