Ancient Gold
Lot 3072 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Ancient Gold
Estimate $5,000
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BACTRIA, Kingdom of, Diodotos I, (256-239 B.C.), gold stater, (8.352 grams), Bactra (Balkh) mint; (Newell suggests c.255-246 B.C.), in name of Antiochus II, obv. diademed head of Diodotus I to right, dotted border, rev. Zeus striding to left, aegis on his extended left arm, wielding a thunderbolt, at his feet an eagle to left, wreath above, to right **BASILEWS* and to left **[A]NTIOXOU*, (S.7497, cf.Newell ESM 713 (p.246, Pl.LIII, 5), M.63 variant [p.39 Vol.I]). Well centred, minor gash in head on obverse, otherwise extremely fine and very rare.
From a recent find which, it is claimed, contained a number of examples of this rarity.
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