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CNG 84, Lot: 790. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $3300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Plato. Circa 145-140 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.70 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / Helios standing facing in quadriga; MT monogram to upper right, MZ in exergue. Bopearachchi 3A; Bopearachchi & Rahman -; SNG ANS 631 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, porous, rough on reverse. Extremely rare and the first to appear since the specimen in the Wahler Collection (Numismatic Fine Arts XXV, 29 November 1990, lot 234).


Ex Triton XII (6 January 2009), lot 405.