Masterpiece of Hellenistic Portraiture

Triton XVIII, Lot: 833. Estimate $50000. Sold for $50000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Apollodotos I Soter. Circa 180-160 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.88 g, 12h). Diademed and draped elderly bust right, wearing kausia; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ to right, AΠOΛΛOΔOTOY to left, Athena seated left, holding Nike in extended right hand, spear in left, resting her left elbow on shield; monogram in exergue. Bopearachchi 1A; Bopearachchi & Rahman 194 (same obv. die); SNG ANS –; MIG –. EF, toned, a couple of minor flan cracks. Magnificent high relief portrait. Extremely rare, the finest known.