Commemorative Issue for Euthydemos

Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 942. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.69 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Euthydemos I. Diademed head of Euthydemos I right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club set on rocks; monogram to right of rock. Bopearachchi Série 16B; SNG ANS 261. Good VF, small field mark in exergue of reverse. Very rare.