Tetradrachm of King Nicodemus II

Description Obverse: Head of Nicomedes II, diademed, draped, right. Reverse: Zeus, laureate, standing, draped, right, holding scepter with left hand, right hand crowning the royal inscription with a laurel wreath; in the field left, the eagle of Zeus, left, holding lightning bolts in its claws; complex monogram beneath; CΞP (control mark).

Exhibitions

• From Alexander to Cleopatra: Greek Art of the Hellenistic Age. The Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore. 1988-1989.

Provenance Hesperia Art, Philadelphia, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1966, by purchase.

Inscriptions [Inscription, Greek; reverse] ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟΥ [Translation] Of King Nicomedes Epiphanes

Credit Museum purchase, 1966