Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Tetradrachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 261-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl; MNA behind / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent behind, AΘE before. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series -; Mitchiner -; SNG ANS -; N&A -; Leu -; Roma Numismatics XIV, 348. 17.09g, 24mm, 6h.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare, apparently only the second known example.
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.