CNG 106, Lot: 562. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.45 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress; all within bead-and-reel border / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1D var. (pelleted border); Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 189; HGC 12, 63; Zeno 2247 and 20924. EF, toned, good strike on a broad flan, fields smoothed. Rarer variety with the bead-and-reel, instead of pelleted, border.

From the R. West Collection. Ex Ronald Cohen Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 66, 19 May 2004), lot 945.