Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVI 26 Sep 2018
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Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, anonymous AV Unit. Time of Demetrios I Aniketos(?), circa 200-185 BC. Shield(?), XXX across; all within bead-and-reel border / Kerykeion; –C to right; all within bead-and-reel border. Bopearachchi -; O. Bopearachchi, "Two more unique coins from the second Mir Zakah deposit," ONS Newsletter 169 (Autumn 2001), pp. 21-22 (this coin); Bopearachchi & Rahman -; SNG ANS -; MIG -. 1.06g, 10mm.
Good Very Fine. Unique.
From a private British collection;
This coin published in O. Bopearachchi, Two more unique coins from the second Mir Zakah deposit (ONS Newsletter 169, Autumn 2001);
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 93, 22 May 2013, lot 680;
Ex Triton XV, 3 January 2012, lot 1345;
Ex 1992 Mir Zakah Hoard.
This coin is one of a very few non-royal coins struck in the region of the Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Bopearachchi dated this gold coin to the time of Demetrios I, based on use of the bead-and-reel obverse and reverse borders and the depiction of the kerykeion type which link it to the bronze issues of that king. It has also been suggested that this gold coin could have been struck at the time of the Indo-Skythian king Maues, who also minted bronze coins utilising the kerykeion as a reverse type, along with a bead-and-reel border (though only on the obverse).
Good Very Fine. Unique.
From a private British collection;
This coin published in O. Bopearachchi, Two more unique coins from the second Mir Zakah deposit (ONS Newsletter 169, Autumn 2001);
Ex Classical Numismatic Group 93, 22 May 2013, lot 680;
Ex Triton XV, 3 January 2012, lot 1345;
Ex 1992 Mir Zakah Hoard.
This coin is one of a very few non-royal coins struck in the region of the Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Bopearachchi dated this gold coin to the time of Demetrios I, based on use of the bead-and-reel obverse and reverse borders and the depiction of the kerykeion type which link it to the bronze issues of that king. It has also been suggested that this gold coin could have been struck at the time of the Indo-Skythian king Maues, who also minted bronze coins utilising the kerykeion as a reverse type, along with a bead-and-reel border (though only on the obverse).