335, Lot: 69. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPOROS. Sauromates III – Thothorses. Lot of coins (3) coins. 1) Sauromates III. AD 229/30-231/2. Æ Denarius (24mm, 9.06 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Aphrodite seated left, holding phiale; X (mark of value) in right field. MacDonald 588/1. 2) Rheskouporis IV. Circa AD 242/3-276/7. Æ Double Denarius (19mm, 5.66 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Aphrodite seated left, holding phiale; B X (mark of value) across field. MacDonald 626/1. 3) Thothorses. AD 285/6-308/9. Æ Stater (18mm, 7.86 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust of Thothorses right / Laureate and draped bust of Roman emperor right; three pellets behind, Thothorses’ tamgha before, HPΦ (date, with P retrograde) below. MacDonald 649 corr. (P not retrograde). Average Fine.

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