Exceptional Hellenistic Portrait
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 449. Estimate $5000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos II. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.84 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right /
BASILEWS EU-QUDHMOU, Herakles, laureate, standing facing, holding wreath in extended right hand, cradling club in left arm; left forearm draped with lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi Série 1D; SNG ANS 217-218; MIG Type 113b; MACW -; F. Holt, “Did King Euthydemus II Really Exist?,”
NC (2000), pl. 4, 4 (same obv. die). EF, toned. Superb metal for issue.
Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CIX.2 (April 2001), no. GK0169.