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Auction: 23007 - Ancient Coins Including the 'Kyrios' Collection of Greek Coins and featuring the 'Ostorius' Collection of Roman Gold
Lot: 141

The 'Kyrios' Collection | Kingdom of Baktria, Agathokles (c. 171-160 BC), AR Tetradrachm, in commemoration of Demetrios I, AR Tetradrachm, Panshir, c. 171-168, DIMITRIOY ANIKITOY Diademed and draped bust right, wearing elephant skin headdress rev. BASILEIONTOS AGATHOKLEOYS Herakles standing facing with club and lion skin in left hand and crowning himself with wreath in right, KP monogram to left field, DIKAIOY in exergue, 16.36g (Bop. series 17, A = Mitchener 146), light erosion to surfaces, still toned, lustrous and detailed, near extremely fine, one of only two examples of this excellent type, a former catalogue front-cover piece when first sold in these rooms in 2003

PROVENANCE

From the Collection of the late Reverend D. R. Steele, sold as the 'John Marshall Collection' through Spink in 2009:

Spink 198, 19 March 2009, lot 369, 'extremely fine' - £5,800

'A Collection of a Scots Lawyer', Spink 165, 'The Coinex Sale', 8 October 2003, lot 139, 'about extremely fine, extremely rare' - £5,000

Purportedly thereof, 'Purchased June 1996'

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Sold for
£8,500

Starting price
£3500