CNG 100, Lot: 265. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Cotys III, with Severus Alexander. AD 227/8-233/4. EL Stater (18mm, 7.67 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 524 (AD 227/8). BACIΛЄΩC KOTVOC, diademed and draped bust of Cotys right; trident to right / Laureate head of Severus Alexander right; ΔKΦ (date) below. Frolova p. 221 and pl. LIV, 22; Anokhin 654 (same dies as illustration, for both); MacDonald 573/1. Good VF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 3, Sotheby’s, 9 June 1983), lot 87; Joaquim José Judice Dos Santos Collection (Part III, J. Schulman, 26 September 1906), lot 4800.