343, Lot: 289. Estimate $500. Sold for $1222. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetrdrachm (35mm, 16.34 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 1D var. (pelleted border on obv.); Qunduz 28 var. (bead-and-reel border also on reverse; same obv. die); Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 189 (same obv. die); HGC 12, –; CNG E-319, lot 154 (same obv. die). VF, porous, evidence of cleaning.