399, Lot: 326. Estimate $150. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Indo-Greek Kingdom. Menander I Soter. Circa 155-130 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 9.75 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Athena Alkidemos advancing left; (MT) monogram to right. Cf. Bopearachchi 13G (drachm); Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS –; MIG –; cf. HGC 12, 181 (for type). VF, traces of deposits, cleaning scratches in obverse field. Monogram known for the drachms of this type, but heretofore unrecorded for a tetradrachm.

From the William F. Spengler Collection.