335, Lot: 64. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Rheskouporis IV. Circa AD 242/3-276/7. BI Stater (19mm, 7.10 g, 12h). Dated year 559 of the Bosporan Era (AD 262/3). Diademed and draped bust of Rheskouporis right / Confronted, laureate and draped busts; pellet between, ΘNΦ (date) below. MacDonald 618. VF, toned, roughness.

From a European Collection of Coins of the Northern Black Sea.

A perplexing issue. By this date Gallienus ruled solely, with Valerian having been captured by the Persians and the Caesars Valerian II and Saloninus having both died.