Triton XIX, Lot: 2120. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Diodotos II Theos. Circa 235-225 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.31 g, 6h). Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Diademed head right / BAΣIΛEΩ[Σ] down right field, ΔIOΔOTOY down left, Zeus Bremetes, seen from behind, advancing left, extended left arm draped with aegis, preparing to hurl thunderbolt in right hand; in inner left field, wreath above eagle standing left. Kritt, New, D7, Style 3 (this coin illustrated on pl. 7); Bopearachchi Série 5A; HGC 12, 20 corr. (mint; this coin illustrated); SNG ANS 82. EF. Very rare.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 1110.