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KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Commodus. 174-211 AD. AV Stater (19mm, 7.56 gm, 12h). Dated BE 489 (192/3 AD). BACILEWC CAVPOMATOV, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate and draped bust of Commodus right; globe to right, date below. MacDonald 500/4; Anokhin 570 var (no globe); Frolova pg. 173 A/a. Good VF, small flan flaws. 

Struck in the year of imperial transition and civil war at Rome, this Bosporan stater of Sauromates bears an imperial portrait not recognizable as Commodus, either Pertinax or Didius Julianus, or possibly Septimius Severus, all of whom ruled at some point during the year BE 489.