CNG 102, Lot: 351. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes IV Philopator. 94-74 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.80 g, 12h). Nikomedia mint. Dated 212 BE (87/6 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram above BIΣ (date). Callataÿ p. 64, unlisted monogram and obverse die; RG 40; HGC 6, 646; DCA 445. EF, lightly toned, underlying luster. Well centered.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule Collection (Stack’s, 11 January 2010), lot 148; Leu 86 (5 May 2003), lot 389; Giessener Münzhandlung 64 (11 October 1993), lot 125.