Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1023. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.82 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant's skin headdress / 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 1D; SNG ANS 188-189. Good VF, trace of porosity, light scratches in obverse field. Attractive portrait.