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; monogram behind / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig, crescent and grape bunch behind, AΘE before. Cf. Bopearachchi, Sophytes Series 1A; Mitchiner -; N&A -, cf. 13-17 (different monogram); SNG ANS -; Roma Numismatics XIV, 356. 16.92g, 23mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare, apparently the third known example.
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.