409, Lot: 333. Estimate $300. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Apollodotos I Soter. Circa 180-160 BC. AR Hemidrachm (14.5mm, 0.91 g, 12h). Elephant standing right; above, six-armed taurine symbol and radiate sun; to right, three-arched hill surmounted by star / Zebu standing right; monogram to upper left; taurine symbol to right. Bopearachchi 3A; HGC 12, 118. Near EF, find patina, some laminations. Extremely rare, of the six examples Bopearachchi lists, four are in public collections, none on CoinArchives.

From the Dr. Wilfried Pieper Collection.