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91, Lot: 86. Estimate $300.
Sold for $327. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA. Sophytes. Circa 305-294 BC. AR Drachm (14mm, 3.03 gm). Local standard. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet; monogram behind / Eagle standing left, head right; grape bunches on stalk above. O. Bopearachchi, "Sophytes, the Enigmatic Ruler of Central Asia, NomKhron 15, Series 2A; cf. SNG ANS 14 (no monogram); cf. MIG 26c (no monogram). VF, light roughness

The obverse monogram may be the same as that found on Baktrian Athena/Owl tetradrachms (cf. Bopearachchi, NomKhron 15, 8, and SNG ANS 6).