Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 626. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Demetrios I. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.88 gm, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / BASILEWS DHMHTRIOU, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself with his right hand and holding club with his left, lion's skin draped over left arm; monogram in inner left field. Bopearachchi Série 1F; SNG ANS 190; MIG Type 103c; MACW 1632 var. (monogram). Superb EF, attractive light toning. ($3000)