Extremely Rare Monogram

Triton XXI, Lot: 570. Estimate $7500. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Antimachos I Theos. Circa 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.74 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing kausia / BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΘEOY ΑNTIMAXOY, Poseidon, laureate, standing facing, holding trident and filleted palm; monogram to inner right. Bopearachchi 1C; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS –; MIG Type 124d (second example) corr. (monogram) = Bement Collection (Ars Classica VII), lot 1793 (same obv. die); Qunduz 97-8 corr. (monogram); Sunrise –; HGC 12, 106. EF, toned. Great metal. Extremely rare monogram.

Ex Leu 13 (29 April 1975), lot 324 (hammer 18,000 CHF).