453, Lot: 149. Estimate $100. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Hemidrachm (15mm, 1.75 g, 12h). Local imitative issue. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / Herakles standing facing, crowning himself and holding club; monogram to inner left. Cf. Bopearachchi 3C; cf. HGC 12, 65 (both refs for official obol); cf. Zeno 25558 (for an imitative issue identified as a trihemiobol[?]). Traces of find patina, cleaning marks, crystallized, broken and repaired. VF. Possibly unique.