245, Lot: 231. Estimate $500. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Diodotos II. Coregent with Diodotos I, circa 246-235 BC. AR Tetradrachm (27mm, 16.57 g, 6h). Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Struck in the name of Antiochos II of Syria. Diademed head right / Zeus Bremetes advancing left, brandishing aegis and thunderbolt; to inner left, N above eagle standing left. Holt Series A, Group 7; Bopearachchi Série 2H; SNG ANS -. VF, light marks, some scattered areas of minor porosity.

From the N.T. Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 55 (13 September 2000), lot 810.

Diodotos II, the son of Diodotos I, was made joint king with his father around the time of the succession of Seleukos II in Syria (SC p. 218). Under his reign, the split between the Seleukid Empire and the Kingdom of Baktria was completed and Baktrian issues in the name of Antiochos II ceased.