Excellent for Issue

245, Lot: 230. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Pre-Seleukid Era. Sophytes. Circa 305-294 BC. AR Diobol (10mm, 1.06 g, 6h). Laureate head of Zeus right / Eagle standing left, head right; two grape bunches on vine above. Bopearachchi, Sophytes 2B; SNG ANS 20. Good VF. Rare this nice.

From the N.T. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 66 (19 May 2010), lot 66.

The similar style of Zeus on this issue to the Zeus-Chariot issues of Seleukos is pivotal in establishing the link between the two series and determining the chronology of Sophytes’ coinage.