Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1005. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $825. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Diodotos I, in the name of Antiochos II of Syria. Circa 255-235 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.39 gm). Attic standard. Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Diademed head right / Zeus advancing left, holding thunderbolt and aegis, eagle at his feet; monogram in left field. Holt Series A, Group 6; Bopearachchi 2E; SNG ANS 78 (same obverse die); SC 631.1a. VF, toned, scattered porosity. Attractive early, unidealized portait of Diodotos I. ($500)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.