436, Lot: 273. Estimate $750. Sold for $1111. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Diodotos I Soter. Circa 255-235 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.57 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, monogram above eagle standing left. Holt Series A, Group 6; Bopearachchi 2E; HGC 9, 244. Good VF, light marks, area of weak strike on reverse, a couple of flan flaws.

From the Menlo Park Collection, purchased from Palladium Numismatics, 1996.