375, Lot: 359. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes III Euergetes. 127-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.71 g, 12h). Dated 198 BE (100/99 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram and H(koppa)P (date). Callataÿ p. 59, unlisted dies; SNG Copenhagen –; SNG von Aulock –; McClean 7544 var. (monogram); DCA 444. Good VF, toned, banker’s mark on the reverse, struck from a worn obverse die, some light hairline scratches. Rare date.

François de Callataÿ lists only two specimens for this combination of monogram and year, both struck from a different set of dies than this coin.