Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 362. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Prusias II. 182-149 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.99 gm, 11h). Diademed and winged head right / BASILEWS PROUSIOU, Zeus standing left, holding wreath in right hand, lotus tipped sceptre in left; to inner left, monogram above and below eagle standing left on thunderbolt. RG pg. 221, 10; BMC Pontus pg. 210, 2 var. (monograms); SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6882 var. (same). Superb EF, lightly toned. Exceptional Hellenistic portrait. ($2500)

Ex Leu 83 (6-7 May 2003), lot 281; Tkalec (28 October 1994), lot 94; Leu 2 (25 April 1972), lot 223.