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CNG 99, Lot: 414. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios II. Circa 150-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.74 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Athena standing facing, holding spear and shield set on ground; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1E; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; cf. SNG ANS 393-4 (for type); HGC 12, 126; Qunduz 35;. Good VF. Overstruck on an Uncertain Mint 16 tetradrachm of Antiochos I (SC 245d).


For examples of the undertype, see Richard P. Miller, “East Arachosia (Quetta) Hoard, 2002 (CH 10.275),” in Coin Hoards X, 50-51