CNG 100, Lot: 239. Estimate $3000. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Gepaepyrus. AD 37/8-38/9. AV Stater (20mm, 7.81 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 335 (AD 38/9). Bare head (possibly Tiberius) right / Bare head (possibly Caligula) right; monogram to left, ЄΛT (date) below. Frolova & Ireland § 12, p. 70 and pl. XLI, 18-9 var. (EΛT for date); Anokhin 325 var. (same); MacDonald 305 var. (same); RPC I 1906 var. (same). Near EF, lustrous. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung 155 (5 March 2007), lot 198, for a hammer of €3400.