Ex Hermitage Museum Collection

CNG 109, Lot: 137. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes III Euergetes. 127-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34.5mm, 16.62 g, 11h). Nikomedeia mint. Dated BE 171 (127/6 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram and AOP (date). Callataÿ p. 53, dies D8/R1, a = Hermitage Sale II 1124 (this coin); HGC 7, 645. VF, toned, minor die break on obverse.

Ex J. Schulman 239 (5 April 1965), lot 1429; Hermitage Museum Collection (Schlessinger 13, 4 February 1935), lot 1124.