436, Lot: 275. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.61 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1B; HGC 12, 63. Good VF, cleaning marks.
From the Menlo Park Collection; purchased from Frank Kovacs, 1998-2002.