CNG 88, Lot: 601. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Lysias Aniketos. Circa 130-125 BC. AR Drachm (17mm, 2.39 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing kausia / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with wreath and cradling club and palm frond in arm draped with lion skin; monogram to inner left, Σ to inner right; “Likasa” in Kharosthi in legend. Bopearachchi 7A; Bopearachchi & Rahman 442; SNG ANS -; CNG 66, 958 (same rev. die). EF, light encrustation on reverse. Extremely rare.