Well Rendered Hellenistic Portrait

Triton XVIII, Lot: 567. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Prousias I Cholos. Circa 228-182 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.94 g, 12h). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΠPOYΣIOY, Zeus Stephanephoros standing left; to inner left, thunderbolt above two monograms. RG 9b; HGC 7, 614; SNG von Aulock 6878; BMC 2; Dewing 2155; Gulbenkian 955 (same obv. die); Hunt II 454; Ward 592 (same obv. die). Near EF, attractively toned. Well centered on a broad flan. Fine quality Hellenistic portrait.