CNG 105, Lot: 525. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos. Circa 200-185 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 17.04 g, 11h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress / BAΣIΛEYΩΣ down right, ΔHMHTPIOY down left, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1F; HGC 12, 63. Good VF, hint of iridescent toning in devices, small delamination in field on obverse, minor obverse die shift. Bold portrait, excellent metal.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 533.