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Auction 102  18 May 2016
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Lot 349

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 650 USD
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KINGS of BITHYNIA. Nikomedes IV Philopator. 94-74 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.54 g, 12h). Nikomedia mint. Dated 206 BE (93/2 BC). Diademed head right / Zeus Stephanophoros standing left; to inner left, eagle standing left on thunderbolt above monogram above CΣ (date). Callataÿ p. 61, dies D153/R2 (unlisted combination); RG 40; HGC 6, 646; DCA 445. EF, some underlying luster.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex New York Sale XXXIV (6 January 2015), lot 143.

This piece is numismatically important as it provides a link between the year 205 and 206 coins that share this same monogram. Previously, a link was known between these dates, but for a different monogram.
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