Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Didrachm. 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 / Owl standing right, head facing; behind, kerykeion, prow, and grape bunch on vine with leaf, AΘE before. Bopearachchi, Sophytes -; SNG ANS -; N&A -; Mitchiner -; Roma Numismatics XIV, 363 (same dies). 7.98g, 21mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, one of four known examples.
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.