CNG 100, Lot: 1486. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Thyateira. Eumenes III (Aristonikos). Pretender to the throne of Pergamon, 132-130 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26.5mm, 12.50 g, 1h). Cistophoric standard. Dated year 2 (of his revolt = 132/1 BC). Cista mystica with serpent; all within ivy wreath / Bow case with serpents; thunderbolt above; ΘYA to left; to right, laureate and beardless head (Dionysos?) right; BA-EY across field within coils of serpents, B (date) on lower part of bow case. Kleiner & Noe Series 1 (dies 1/a); Robinson, Cistophori 3 (dies A/c); SNG von Aulock 3198; SNG Copenhagen Supp. 950 (same obv. die); DCA 353. Good VF, toned. Rare.