CNG 84, Lot: 601. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Rheskouporis IV. Circa AD 242/3-276/7. BI Stater (19mm, 7.59 g, 1h). Dated Bosporan Era 549 (AD 252/3). Diademed and draped bust of Rheskouporis right; blundered legend / Laureate head of Trebonianus Gallus right; uncertain symbol before, ΘMΦ (date) below. Cf. MacDonald 611; cf. Anokhin 700; BMC -; K. Golenko, “Тамансий клад монет 1970 г.,” Klio 54 (1972), 37 var. (same obv. die, year 548). VF, toned, slight roughness.

From the Alex Shubs Collection.