| Roma Numismatics Ltd > Auction XXX | Auction date: 21 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 309 Price realized: 2,400 GBP (Approx. 3,040 USD / 2,799 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | Show similar lots on CoinArchives Find similar lots in upcoming auctions on  |
| Lot description: Baktria, Sophytes AR Drachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 246/5-235 BC. Attic standard. Head of Seleukos(?) to right, wearing laurel wreathed Attic helmet decorated with spiral pattern on crest and eagle wings on cheek-guard; M on bust truncation / Cockerel standing to right; kerykeion behind, ΣΩΦYΤΟΥ to right. Jansari 47 (O26/R33, this coin); Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 3A, pl. I, 3; SNG ANS 21-23; Mitchiner 29b; HGC 12, 14. 3.86g, 16mm, 6h. Near Mint State. Very Rare. This coin published in S. Jansari, 'The Sophytes Coins: from the Punjab to Bactria and back again', in NC 2018; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XXIII, 24 March 2022, lot 411 (hammer: GBP 4,000); Ex Long Valley River Collection, Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XX, 29 October 2020, lot 339; Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., Auction XV, 5 April 2018, lot 350; Ex 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA. Estimate: 4000 GBP |  |
