Baktrian Kingdom. Demetrios I Aniketos (ca. 200-185 BC). Silver Tetradrachm (16.72 g).
Attic standard. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing an elephant’s skin headdress. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ΔHMHTPIoY, Herakles standing facing, crowning himself, holding club and lion’s skin, monogram inner left.
Bopearachchi 1F; SNG ANS 192.
In NGC holder graded Ch XF: Strike 5/5; Surface 3/5. NGC Certification Number 6957064-011
Son of Euthydemos I, who he succeeded ca. 200 BC, Demetrios I (Damaytra) was reputed to have never been defeated in battle. Posthumously he was referred to as “the Unconquered” (Antiketos) on the pedigree coins of his successor Agathokles. Demetrios extended Greco-Baktrian rule over extensive areas of what is now southern Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan and India. The historian Strabo claimed that “more tribes were subdued by [Demetrios] than Alexander”.