Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 364. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes III. 128-94 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.83 gm, 12h). Dated 177 BE (121/0 BC). Diademed head right / BASILEWS EPIFANOUS NIKOMHDOU, Zeus standing left, holding wreath in right hand, lotus tipped sceptre in left; to inner left, eagle on thunderbolt above monogram and ZOP (date). De Callataÿ pg. 54 (D30/R1); RG pg. 230 var. (monogram); BMC Pontus -; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock -. Good VF, lightly toned, broad flan. Rare variety, only one specimen cited by De Callataÿ. ($750)

From the Ronald Cohen Collection. Ex New York Sale V (16 January 2003), lot 136.