Pedigree Issue for Demetrios I

Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 497. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.69 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Demetrios I. ΔHMHTPIOY ANIKHTOY, diademed and draped bust of Demetrios I right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself and holding club, lion's skin draped over arm; monogram in inner left field. Bopearachchi Série 17A var. (monogram); SNG ANS -. Good VF, some roughness. Unpublished with this monogram (which is known on other issues of this ‘pedigree’ series).