CNG 100, Lot: 1631. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 17.05 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 1B; Bopearachchi & Rahman 121 (same obv. die); AK III 114 (same obv. die); SNG ANS 186 (same obv. die); HGC 12, 63. VF, toned, light cleaning scratches under tone on cheek and in field of reverse, spots of roughness. Extremely rare with this monogram.