Sale: Triton X, Lot: 451. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.92 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Diodotos I in the name of Antiochos II of Syria. ANTIOCOU NIKATOROS, diademed head of Diodotos I right / BASILEUONTOS AGAQOKLEOUS DIKAOU, Zeus Bremetes standing left, seen from behind, extending left arm covered by aegis, and brandishing thunderbolt in right hand; to left, eagle standing at feet left; PK monogram in inner right field. Bopearachchi Série 13 var. (unlisted control marks); SNG ANS 258 var. (same); MIG Type 143 var. (same); O. Bopearachchi, “De l’Indus à l’Oxus,” 70A (same obv. die); Gemini II, lot 166 (same obv. die). Near EF, light porosity. Extremely rare, only the third example known.