Triton XIV, Lot: 422. Estimate $4000. Sold for $8000. 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; all within pelleted border / 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 1C; Bopearachchi & Rahman 122 (same rev. die); SNG ANS 187-188 (same obv. die); MIG Type 103d. EF, light scuff under eye, slight double strike on reverse.