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Triton XIV, Lot: 411. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Pre-Seleukid Era. Sophytes. Circa 305-294 BC. AR Didrachm (19mm, 7.89 g, 6h). Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; monogram to left / Owl standing right, head facing; to left, prow of galley right above branch containing grape bunch and leaf, AΘE to right. Bopearachchi, Sophytes -; cf. Bopearachchi & Rahman 66-67; SNG ANS 6; cf. MIG Type 24, third illustrated specimen (appears to have appropriate reverse symbols, but is undescribed in text). EF.


From the N.T. Collection. Ex Russell Bement, Jr. Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 51, 15 September 1999), lot 685.