Watch List notes:

KINGS of BOSPORUS. Sauromates II, with Septimius Severus. Circa AD 174/5-210/1. EL Stater (19mm, 7.72 g, 12h). Dated Bosporan Era 495 (AD 198/9). BACIΛЄωC CAVPOMATOV, diademed and draped bust of Sauromates right / Laureate head of Septimius Severus right; pellet to right; ЄЧV (date) below. Frolova p. 177 and pl. XXXIII, 9-10 (same dies as illustrations); Anokhin 576a; MacDonald 506/2. Good VF, toned.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Buddy Ebsen Collection (Superior, 7 June 1987), lot 4114, for a hammer of $750.