Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 942. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREEK KINGS of BAKTRIA. Diodotos II. Circa 235-230/225 BC. AV Stater (8.27 gm). Attic standard. Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Diademed head of Diodotos I right / Zeus advancing left, holding thunderbolt and aegis, eagle at his feet; wreath in left field. Holt Series D, Group 7; Bopearachchi -; SNG ANS 82; MIG -. Good VF, test cut on head. ($3000)

All of the staters in the name of Diodotos are struck during the reign of Diodotos II. Although a few appear with the portrait of Diodotos I, these are all posthumous.