Triton XIX, Lot: 146. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes II Epiphanes. 149-127 BC. AR Tetradrachm (37mm, 15.30 g, 12h). Dated 159 BE (140/39 BC). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ EΠIΦANOYΣ NIKOMHΔOY, Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram and ΘNP monogram (date). RG 40; HGC 7, 642; DCA 443; SNG von Aulock –; SNG Copenhagen –; BMC –; de Luynes 2427 var. (date). Good VF, toned, edge marks. Rare date.

Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 251; Deyo Collection (Triton XV, 3 January 2012), lot 1197; Spink America (7 December 1995), lot 2080.