CNG 93, Lot: 677. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.32 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. 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 –. Good VF, light porosity. Well-centered on a broad flan. Extremely rare, the fourth example known.