Unique Monogram

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 680. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Antimachos I. Circa 180-165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.33 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing kausia / Poseidon, laureate, standing facing, holding trident and filleted palm; monogram (of ΠP?) to inner right. Bopearachchi Série 1 var. (monogram); SNG ANS -. Good VF, small edge chip, minor roughness at top of obverse. This monogram previously unknown in the whole Baktrian series. Unique.