Extremely Rare Tetradrachm of Plato

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 651. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Plato. Circa 145-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.70 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Helios standing facing in quadriga; monogram to upper right, MN in exergue. Bopearachchi Série 2B; SNG ANS 629. VF, toned, delamination on obverse, struck with worn obverse die. Extremely rare.

Ex Gemini I (11 January 2005), lot 227.

Plato’s tetradrachms remain among the rarest in the Greco-Baktrian series; hardly any were present in the large number of Baktrian hoards that came on the market in the 1990s.