CNG 96, Lot: 379. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Prousias I Cholos. Circa 228-182 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.50 g, 12h). Nikomedeia mint. Struck circa 228-210/00 BC. Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanephoros standing left; to inner left, monogram above thunderbolt above monogram. RG 9b var. (position of monograms, top monogram unlisted); HGC 7, 613 (same obverse die as illustration); Gorny & Mosch 142, lot 1476 (same dies). VF, bright surfaces, compact flan. High relief portrait.

Rare issue, one of two known with this monogram configuration.

Two monogram configurations are known for this issue, with one or two monograms inscribed below the thunderbolt. No issues are known with two monograms, respectively above and below the thunderbolt.