Published in Coin Hoards II: First Discovered Example

CNG 100, Lot: 1632. Estimate $10000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Apollodotos I Soter. Circa 180-160 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 15.12 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 = C.Y. Petitot-Biehler, "Trésor d'Aï Khanoum," RN 1975, 50 (this coin); Bopearachchi & Rahman 194 (same dies); SNG ANS –; MIG –; HGC 12, 116. VF, toned, corroded surfaces. Extremely rare. This piece, published in 1975, was the first known example of the type.

Ex Spink 165 (8 October 2003), lot 144; 1974? Balkh, Afghanistan Hoard (CH II 88).