Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1946

Price realized: 850 CHF   (Approx. 966 USD / 897 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I, circa 200-185 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 33 mm, 16.25 g, 11 h), Baktra. Diademed and draped bust of Demetrios I to right, wearing elephant skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ΔHMHTPIOY Youthful Herakles, nude, standing facing, crowning himself with a wreath with his right hand and holding club and lion skin his left; in inner left field, monogram. Bopearachchi 1F. HGC 12, 63. MIG 103c. Discolored edge chip (removed large mount?), otherwise, good very fine.


From a North German collection, formed since the 1980s.

Starting price: 100 CHF

Match 1:
Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 15Auction date: 1 June 2024
Lot number: 177

Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot
Lot description:


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I, circa 200-185 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 35 mm, 16.66 g, 12 h), Baktra. Diademed and draped bust of Demetrios I to right, wearing elephant skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ΔHMHTPIOY Youthful Herakles, nude, standing facing, crowning himself with a wreath with his right hand and holding club and lion skin in his left; in inner left field, monogram. Bopearachchi 1B. HGC 12, 63. MIG 103b. SNG ANS 186. Lightly toned and with an impressive portrait and a particularly detailed rendering of the elephant skin headdress. About extremely fine.


Ex Roma XXV, 22 September 2022, 548.

Estimate: 3500 CHF

Match 2:
Nomos AG > obolos 31Auction date: 21 April 2024
Lot number: 400

Price realized: 130 CHF   (Approx. 143 USD / 134 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I, circa 200-185 BC. Obol (Silver, 13 mm, 0.70 g, 12 h), Panjhir. Diademed and draped bust of Demetrios I to right, wearing elephant's skin headdress. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ Herakles, nude, standing facing, crowning himself with wreath held in right hand, holding club and lion's skin in left; to left, monogram of PKA. Bopearachchi 3B. HGC 12, 65 (R1). SNG ANS 193-8. Rare, and well centered. Good very fine.



Starting price: 100 CHF

Match 3:
Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 15Auction date: 1 June 2024
Lot number: 178

Price realized: This lot is for sale in an upcoming auction - Bid on this lot
Lot description:


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos II, circa 185-180 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 16.79 g, 12 h), Baktra. Diademed and draped bust of Euthydemos II to right. Rev. BAΣΙΛΕΩΣ - EYΘYΔHMOY Youthful Herakles, wearing wreath, standing facing, holding wreath in his right hand and club and lion skin in his left; in inner left field, monogram. Bopearachchi 1D. HGC 12, 72. MIG 113b. SNG ANS 217-8. Beautifully toned and with a very attractive portrait struck in high relief. Light marks and with a minor flan fault on the reverse, otherwise, about extremely fine.


Ex UBS 56, 28 January 2003, 172 and Numismatica Ars Classica 23, 19 March 2002, 1303.

Estimate: 2000 CHF

Match 4:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28Auction date: 9 December 2023
Lot number: 1961

Price realized: 850 CHF   (Approx. 966 USD / 897 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides II, circa 145-140 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 32 mm, 16.81 g, 11 h), Baktra. Diademed and draped bust of Eukratides II to right. Rev. ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ - ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ Apollo standing front, head to left, holding arrow in his right hand and bow set on ground in his left; to inner left, monogram of ΠA. Bopearachchi 1I. HGC 12, 161. Minor marks and with very light doubling on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.


Ex Leu Web Auction 18, 19-21 December 2021, 1669, Münzen & Medaillen AG FPL 347, July 1973, 6, and previously from an old Swiss collection.

Starting price: 150 CHF

Match 5:
Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 29Auction date: 24 February 2024
Lot number: 1216

Price realized: 4,000 CHF   (Approx. 4,540 USD / 4,196 EUR)   Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees.
Lot description:


BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I, circa 200-185 BC. Tetradrachm (Silver, 31 mm, 17.00 g, 12 h), Baktra. Diademed and draped bust of Demetrios I to right, wearing elephant skin headdress. Rev. BAΣIΛEΩΣ - ΔHMHTPIOY Youthful Herakles, nude, standing facing, crowning himself with a wreath with his right hand and holding club and lion skin his left; in inner left field, monogram. Bopearachchi 1C. HGC 12, 63. MIG 103d. SNG ANS 187. A very attractive piece with a wonderful portrait. Very light marks, otherwise, good very fine.


Ex Leu 13, 27 May 2023, 162 and from the Grand Haven Collection, Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021, 850.

Starting price: 1000 CHF