Triton XIV, Lot: 421. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 17.04 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / BAΣIΛEΩΣ down right field, ΔHMHTPIOY down left, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with wreath held in right hand and cradling club in left arm draped with lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1B; Bopearachchi & Rahman 121; SNG ANS 186 (same obv. die); MIG Type 103b. Near EF. Good quality metal for issue.

From the N.T. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 696.