440, Lot: 256. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Pantaleon Soter. Circa 185-180 BC. CU-NI Double Unit (24mm, 7.98 g, 12h). Draped bust of Dionysos right, wearing tainia and ivy wreath; thyrsos behind / panther standing right on ground line, head facing, wearing bell and with left leg raised; ΦI to left. Cf. Bopearachchi 4B (for type); HGC 12, 103; Triton XXII, lot 455. VF, reddish-brown deposits, areas of smoothing. Very rare control mark.