CNG 100, Lot: 244. Estimate $2000. Sold for $12500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Rhescuporis I, with Domitian. AD 68/9-92/3. AV Stater (19mm, 7.83 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 386 (AD 89/90). BACIΛEωC PHCKOYΠOPIΔOC, diademed and draped bust of Rhescuporis right / Laureate head of Domitian right; ςΠΤ (date) below. Frolova p. 96, 1 = Burachkov pl. XXVII, 119 = Podschiwalow 21 = Anokhin 368 = RPC I 465 (citing only the Frolova and Anokhin specimens [which are the same coin]); MacDonald 352. Good VF, a few light marks on the edge. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 7 October 1986), lot 300.