300, Lot: 100. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Heliokles Dikaios. Circa 145-130 BC. Æ Drachm (20mm, 2.51 g, 12h). Reduced Attic standard. Posthumous issue. Diademed and draped bust right / Crude style Zeus standing left, holding thunderbolt and long scepter; monogram to inner left. SNG ANS 665; MACW 1874. Fine, dark green-brown patina, smoothing and cleaning scratches. Very rare.
Mitchiner (MACW) dates these issues from “circa 100/80 BC - AD 45/50.”