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CNG 90, Lot: 570. Estimate $750.
Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes III Euergetes. 127-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 15.73 g, 12h). Dated 198 BE (100/99 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram and H(koppa)P monogram (date). Callataÿ p. 54, dies D115/R1, a = Davis Collection 193 (this coin); SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock –; McClean 7544 var. (monogram); DCA 444. Near EF, attractively toned, minor die wear on obverse. Rare date.


From the Deyo Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts Fall Mail Bid Sale (12 October 1985), lot 286; Norman Davis Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XI, 8 December 1982), lot 152.