455, Lot: 222. Estimate $400. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Commodus. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (19mm, 7.68 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 487 (AD 190/1). Diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right; club before / Laureate head of Commodus right; ZΠY (date) below. MacDonald 498/1 (this coin illustrated; Anokhin 568. Toned. VF.

From the J.B. Collection. Ex Garth R. Drewry Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 110, 16 March 2005), lot 103; Classical Numismatic Group XIII (4 December 1990), lot 335.