Extremely Rare Amyntas Heroic Tetradrachm

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 262. Estimate $20000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $26000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Amyntas. Circa 80-65 BC. AR Tetradrachm (9.78 g, 12h). BAΣIΛEΩΣ NIKHTOPOΣ AMYNTOY, diademed heroic bust left, seen from behind, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear and aegis on left shoulder, brandishing spear over right shoulder / “Maharajasa jayadharasa Amitasa” in Kharosthi, Zeus Nikephoros enthroned facing slightly left, holding Athena in extended right hand and long scepter and palm frond in left; monogram to left. Bopearachchi 10B (same obv. die) = MIG Type 393b; Bopearachchi & Rahman -; SNG ANS -. EF, find patina, light scratches in fields under tone. Extremely rare, only one specimen recorded by Bopearachchi.