Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 687. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1300. 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 (8.31 gm). Attic standard. Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Diademed head of Diodotos I right / BASILEWS ANTIOCOU, Zeus advancing left, holding thunderbolt in right hand, aegis draped over extended left arm, eagle at his feet standing left; N in left field. Cf. Holt Series A, Group 7 (tetradrachm); Bopearachchi -; SNG ANS -; cf. MIG 63 (for type); SC 629. VF, test cut on back of head. ($1500)