CNG 97, Lot: 154. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes IV Philopator. 94-74 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.84 g, 12h). Dated 205 BE (93/2 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram above EΣ (date). Callataÿ p. 61, D153/R– (unlisted rev. die); RG 40; HGC 6, 646; DCA 445; SNG Fitzwilliam 4136 (same obv. die). EF, lightly toned.