Leu Numismatik AG > Auction 15 | Auction 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 |