Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 638. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $2050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Antimachos I. Circa 174-165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.94 gm, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing petasos; filleted border / BASILEWS QEOU ANTIMACOS, Poseidon, laureate, standing facing, holding trident in his right hand, filleted palm in his left; monogram in inner left field. Bopearachchi Série 1A var. (pelleted border); SNG ANS 274 var. (same); MIG Type 124f var. (same); MACW 1656 var. (same). EF, soft obverse strike. Extremely rare with a filleted border. ($1500)

The only published specimen of an Antimachos tetradrachm with a filleted obverse border is coin 98 in the Qunduz Hoard, of the same type, but with a different monogram.