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Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 492. Estimate $4000. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008. 
Sold For $4300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Diodotos I. Circa 255-235 BC. AV Stater (8.32 g, 6h). Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Struck in the name of Antiochos II of Syria. Diademed head right / Zeus Bremetes advancing left; in inner left field, wreath above eagle standing left. Holt Series A, Group 8; Bopearachchi Série 1A; SNG ANS 75; SC 630. Near EF, some light field marks, trace of encrustation in devices. Rare without test cut on obverse.