Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 922. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA. Sophytes. Circa 305-294 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.89 gm). Local standard. Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and pellet-in-crescent behind; all within incuse square. Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; cf. SNG ANS 1; cf. MIG 13a (all of Attic weight). EF. Apparently unpublished. ($750)

Although didrachms and smaller denominations of this series are known on the local weight standard, no tetradrachms have yet been noted.