Choice Pedigree Issue for Diodotos I

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 628. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.86 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Diodotos I. Diademed head of Diodotos I right / Zeus Bremetes standing left, preparing to cast thunderbolt; to inner left, eagle standing left; monogram to inner right. Bopearachchi Série 14A; SNG ANS 259. Good VF, toned, a hint of porosity on obverse.

Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CX.6 (December 2002), no. GK0782.