Fourth Known Demetrios Tetradrachm with Reverse Border

CNG 87, Lot: 731. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.39 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress; all within bead-and-reel border / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with wreath and holding club; monogram to inner left; all within bead-and-reel border. Bopearachchi 1C corr. (monogram) = Qunduz 28 (same obv. die); Bopearachchi & Rahman -; SNG ANS -; Boston MFA Supp. 309 (same obv. die); cf. Calcutta I 1 and pl. I, 9; MIG -. VF, light porosity, well-centered on a broad flan. Extremely rare, the fourth example known.