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CNG 108, Lot: 414. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.85 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / BAΣIΛEYΩΣ down right, ΔHMHTPIOY down left, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1F; HGC 12, 63. Near EF, toned.


From the David Nelson Collection, purchased from Spink for £4000. Ex Spink (8 October 2003), lot 134; purchased from Spink, September 1993.