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420, Lot: 302. Estimate $300.
Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Heliokles Dikaios. Circa 145-130 BC. AR Drachm (18.5mm, 4.16 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right within bead-and-reel border / Zeus Bremetes standing facing, holding thunderbolt in right hand and scepter in left; monogram to left. Bopearachchi 2G; HGC 12, 171. Good VF, toned, minor porosity. Very rare monogram, Bopearachchi cites only two examples (one in the Ashmolean; the other in Berlin).


From the David Nelson Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 69 (8 June 2005), lot 810.