Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1113. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Demetrios I. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.89 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with his right hand and holding club with his left, lion's skin draped over left arm; monogram in inner left field. Bopearachchi Série 1F; SNG ANS 192; MIG Type 103c; MACW 1632 var. (monogram). EF, attractive light toning. Beautifully modelled Herakles. ($2500)