CNG 100, Lot: 255. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Eupator, with Marcus Aurelius. AD 154/5-circa 172/3. EL Stater (19mm, 7.63 g, 1h). Dated Bosporan Era 467 (AD 170/1). BACIΛЄωC ЄVΠATOPOC, diademed and draped bust of Eupator right / Laureate head of Marcus Aurelius right; spear to right, ZΞY (date) below. Frolova p. 165 and pl. XXVIII, 9-10 (same dies as illustration) = RPC IV online 3754.1-2; Anokhin 546a (same dies as illustrations); MacDonald 477/3. VF, toned, a few minor flan cracks and light edge smoothing.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica C (11 March 1993), lot 1403, for a hammer of ChF 670.