Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 608. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Sophytes. Circa 305-294 BC. AR Didrachm (8.01 gm, 7h). Local standard. Imitating Athenian types. Head of Athena right, wearing crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves and a spiral palmette on the bowl; grape bunch behind / AQE, owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; SNG ANS 5 (same reverse die); MIG Type 24 (same reverse die as second plate coin); MACW -. EF, toned. ($750)

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Sotheby's Zurich (27 October 1993), lot 903.