Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 925. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA. Sophytes. Circa 305-294 BC. AR Drachm (3.43 gm). Local standard. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet; monogram behind / Eagle standing left, head right; grape bunches on stalk above. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 2A; cf. SNG ANS 14 (no monogram); cf. MIG 26c (no monogram). Good VF, some porosity. ($300)

The obverse monogram may be the same as that found on Baktrian Athena/Owl tetradrachms (cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes 8, and SNG ANS 6).