409, Lot: 328. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Diodotos I Soter. Circa 255-235 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.08 g, 6h). In the name of Antiochos II of Syria. Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Diademed head right / Zeus Bremetes advancing left; to inner left, wreath above eagle standing left. Holt Series A, Group 8; Bopearachchi 2B; HGC 9, 243. VF, toned, a few marks.

From the Dr. Wilfried Pieper Collection.