CNG 103, Lot: 465. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Antimachos I Theos. Circa 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.94 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing kausia / Poseidon standing facing, holding trident and filleted palm; monogram to inner right. Bopearachchi 1A; SNG ANS 274-5; HGC 12, 106. EF, cleaning marks on reverse, small edge flaw.

Purchased at the Düsseldorfer Antik-Messe, 1996.