389, Lot: 419. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Diodotos I Soter. Circa 255-235 BC. AV Stater (18mm, 8.28 g, 6h). In the name of Antiochos II of Syria. Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Diademed head right / Zeus Bremetes, seen from behind, advancing left, aegis draped over outstretched left arm, and brandishing thunderbolt in right hand;in inner left field, wreath above eagle standing left. Holt Series A, Group 8; Bopearachchi 1A; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 75; MIG –; SC 630; HGC 9, 234 (Antiochos II). Near EF, prior test cut in hair repaired (see pedigree). COIN SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.

Ex Hess-Divo 328 (22 May 2015), lot 95 (coin with test cut present at that time: Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 614 (same).