★ Illustrated in "The Caprara Forgeries". From the collection of a Mentor. Sold with the original collector's ticket ★

Kingdom of Bithynia, Nicomedes III, 127 – 94 Tetradrachm (forgery) by Caprara circa 1820, AR 30.00 mm., 16.34 g.
Diademed head r. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ – ΕΠΙΦΑΝΟΥΣ / ΝΙΚΟΜΗΔΟΥ Zeus standing l., holding wreath and sceptre; in inner l. field, eagle standing l. on thunderbolt above monogram and date. Kinns, The Caprara Forgeries, 50b (this coin illustrated). de Callataÿ p. 65, D2/R1.

Old cabinet tone and Good very fine

Privately purchased from Spink in 1958 (sold with the original collector's ticket). From the collection of a Mentor.