53, Lot: 39. Estimate $100. Sold for $62. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

INDO-GREEK KINGS of BAKTRIA, Hermaios. Circa 90-70 BC. AR Tetradrachm (8.53 gm). Posthumous issue, struck circa 25-10 BC. Diademed and draped bust right / Zeus seated left, holding sceptre; monogram to left. Cf. Bopearachchi Série 16, 92-98. Nice VF. ($100)

Hermaios was the last Indo-Greek to rule in Gandhara and surrounding regions. After the Yuezhi captured the area they imitated his coinage, just as they did in Baktria after defeating Heliokles I some sixty years earlier.