Magnificent High Relief

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 253. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.84 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right within pelleted border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΓAΘOKΛEOYΣ, Zeus standing facing, holding scepter in left hand and Hekate, who holds a lighted torch in each hand, in right hand; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1D; Bopearachchi & Rahman 149 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 230. Superb EF, traces of underlying luster. Struck with fresh dies and possibly the finest known specimen. Magnificent high relief portrait.