Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 688. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $7000. 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; wreath in left field. Holt Series A, Group 8; Bopearachchi Série 1A; SNG ANS 75; MIG 66a; SC 630. Superb EF, struck on an exceptionally broad flan. [See color enlargement on plate 9] ($7500)