Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 621. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.55 g, 11h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi Série 1E; SNG ANS -. Fine, a few light field marks. Extremely rare monogram, only the BN example listed in Boepearachchi, and the first offered at auction.