Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 968. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis II (III), with Elagabalus. 211-227 AD. AV Stater (7.72 gm, 12h). Dated 518 of the Bosporan Era (221/2 AD). Diademed and draped bust of Rhescuporis right; trident before / Laureate and draped bust of Elagabalus right; date below. MacDonald 561/1; Anokhin 638a; Frolova p. 209, C/c 1 (same dies). VF, lightly toned, well-centered. ($400)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Empire Coins FPL 49 (1989), lot 3; Malter XLII (9 September 1989), lot 430.