CNG 100, Lot: 254. Estimate $500. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Eupator, with Marcus Aurelius. AD 154/5-circa 172/3. EL Stater (18mm, 7.72 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 465 (AD 168/9). BACIΛЄωC ЄVΠATOPOC, diademed and draped bust of Eupator right / Laureate and draped bust of Marcus Aurelius right; six-pointed star to right, ЄΞV (date) below. Frolova –; cf. Anokhin 544 (same obv. die as illustration; bareheaded and undraped) = RPC IV online 8412.1; MacDonald 475 corr. (this coin cited and illustrated; undraped). VF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams, purchased from Victor England, March 1985. Ex V. Adda Collection (Christie’s, 9 October 1984), lot 260.