Fine Style

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 354. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos I. Circa 225-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.56 g, 12h). Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Struck circa 206-200 BC. Diademed head, with elderly features, right / BASILEWS EUQUDHMOU, Herakles seated left on lion skin draped over rock, holding in his right hand a club set on rocks; monogram to right of rock. Kritt A17; Bopearachchi Série 11A; MIG Type 89c; SNG ANS 141 var. (monogram). Near EF, lightly toned, minor deposits. Fine style.