BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Amyntas Nikator. Circa 80-65 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 8.96 g, 12h).

Triton XXV
Lot: 579. Estimated: $ 5 000

Oriental Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

Sold For $ 12 000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Go to Live

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Amyntas Nikator. Circa 80-65 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 8.96 g, 12h). BAΣIΛEΩΣ NIKATOPOΣ AMYNTOY, diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / maharajasa jayadharasa amitasa in Kharosthi, Athena Alkidemos advancing left, brandishing shield on left arm, decorated with aegis, and thunderbolt in right hand; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 5A; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS –; MIG Type 395a; HGC 12, 421. Find patina, some roughness. VF. Extremely rare.

From the Melinda Collection.

The coinage of Amyntas is among the rarest of the Indo-Greek series, but this includes the largest silver pieces ever struck in the ancient world. Two immense double-dekadrachms, nearly 70 mm in diameter and weighing @ 85 grams apiece, were found in the Kunduz hoard of 1946. The reasons for their minting are entirely unknown. Aside from these Attic-standard giants, all other coinage of Amyntas is on the Indo-Greek standard; even these are almost never seen in commerce. The iconography suggests an attempt to evoke the great reigns of Eukratides I and Menander nearly a century earlier.

The final winners of all Triton XXV lots will be determined at the live public sale that will be held on 11-12 January 2022. Triton XXV – Session Two – Greek Coinage (Part 2) through Roman Provincial Coinage will be held Tuesday afternoon, 11 January 2022 beginning at 2:00 PM ET.

Winning bids are subject to a 20% buyer's fee for bids placed on this website and 22.50% for all others.

We recognize that our users may have various Internet Browsers and Operating Systems. We like our visitors to have the best possible experience when using our bidding platform. However, we do recognize that it is impossible to develop applications that work identically, efficiently and effectively on all web browsers. The CNG bidding platform supports the latest stable major version and the stable previous version of Mozilla Firefox and Chrome.