Triton XVIII, Lot: 831. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 17.06 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / BAΣIΛEYΩΣ ΔHMHTPIOY, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1F; cf. Bopearachchi & Rahman 124 (fourrée); SNG ANS 190; MIG Type 103c; Sunrise –. Good VF, toned.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich, purchased from Leu, May 1999.