Kings of the Bosporos, Sauromates II Æ Double Denarius. AD 174-180. BACIΛЄΩC CAYPOMATOY, diademed and draped bust right, crescent before / Herakles right, holding club, taming horse of Diomedes; star, B below. SNG Stancomb 996 (this coin); Frolova p. 187, pl. 37, 20; MacDonald 539. 15.32g, 33mm, 6h.
Very Fine.
From the William Stancomb Collection; this coin published in Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Great Britain, Volume XI, The William Stancomb Collection of Coins of the Black Sea Region (Oxford, 2000);
Acquired from John Morcom.