175, Lot: 151. Estimate $100. Sold for $84. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 3.82 g, 11h). Diademed, helmeted and draped bust right / The Dioskouroi on rearing horses right, holding palm fronds and spears; N to lower right. Bopearachchi Série 7E; cf. SNG ANS 475; MIG 178e. Near VF, obverse smoothed and details strengthened, scratches.

Interesting engraver’s error on the reverse, with the B in the royal title cut as an I, which suggests the coin may actually be an early Skythian imitation.