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CNG 99, Lot: 412. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Antimachos I Theos. Circa 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 15.79 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing kausia; bead-and-reel border / Poseidon, laureate, standing facing, holding trident and filleted palm; monogram to inner right. Bopearachchi 1A var. (pellet border on obv.); Bopearachchi & Rahman 173-4 var. (same); SNG ANS 274-5 var. (same); MIG Type 124f var. (same); HGC 12, 106 var. (same); Qunduz 98 var. (monogram); Heritage 3037, lot 30944 (same dies); Peus 384, lot 467 = Peus 371, lot 300 (same dies); CNG E-107, lot 127 (same dies); Peus 366, lot 290 (same dies). VF, porous, obverse smoothed. Extremely rare variety with the bead-and-reel border.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 77 (26 May 2014), lot 113 (realized CHF 1200).