Watch List notes:

Baktria, 'Athenian Series' AR Didrachm. Uncertain mint in the Oxus region, circa 261-239/8 BC. Attic standard. Head of Athena to right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing to right, head facing; behind, kerykeion, prow, and grape bunch on vine with leaf, AΘE before. Roma XIV, 362-3; Bopearachchi, Sophytes -; SNG ANS -; N Mitchiner -; Roma XVII, lot 595 (same dies); Roma XIV, lot 363 (same). 7.86g, 19mm, 6h.

Near Extremely Fine. Extremely Rare; one of eight known examples.

From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.