Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 537. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $4100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREEK KINGS of BAKTRIA. Diodotos I, in the name of Antiochos II of Syria. Circa 255-235 BC. AV Stater (8.23 gm). Mint A (near Ai Khanoum). Attic standard. Diademed head of Diodotos I right / Zeus advancing left, holding thunderbolt and aegis, eagle at his feet; N in left field. Cf. Holt Series A, Group 7 (tetradrachm); Bopearachchi -; SNG ANS -; cf. MIG 63 (for type); SC 629. Near EF, die crack on reverse. Rare without test cut. ($4000)