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Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 71Auction date: 28 May 2020
Lot number: 144

Lot description:


Kings of the Bosporus, Kotys III Æ Two Denarii. AD 227/8-233/4. BACIΛEWC KOTYOC, bust of Kotys facing bust of Aphrodite Apatura, wearing veil and kalathos; c/m: head of Severus Alexander right / Veiled Aphrodite Apatura wearing kalathos, enthroned left, holding phiale and sceptre, star-inverted B across fields. SNG Stancomb 1012 (this coin); MacDonald 582/1; Frolova pl. 57, 16 var. 7.04g, 23mm, 12h.

Very Fine. Very Rare.

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 as gift from Nina Frolova, 1995.

Estimate: 60 GBP