Kings of the Bosporos

CNG 100, Lot: 236. Estimate $3000. Sold for $18000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Uncertain ruler. 9/8 BC-AD 9/10. AV Stater (19mm, 7.93 g, 11h). Dated Bosporan Era 302 (AD 5/6). Bare head of Augustus left / Bare head of Agrippa right; monogram to left, BT (date) below. Frolova & Ireland § 10, p. 63 and pl. XL, 15 (same dies); Anokhin 268; MacDonald 260 (this coin cited and illustrated); RPC I 1875. Good VF, a few edge marks. Rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from William Donner, June 1987. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 9 October 1984), lot 235.