Two Extremely Rare Pedigree Tetradrachms

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 677. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.81 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Euthydemos I. Diademed head of Euthydemos I right / Herakles seated left on lion skin draped over rock, holding club set on leg; monogram to right of rock. Bopearachchi Série 16A; SNG ANS -; H.P. Francfort, “Deux nouveaux tétradrachmes commemoratifs d’Agathocle,” RN 1975, 1 (same obv. die). Fine, porous. Extremely rare, apparently the third known (the others in Berlin and a private collection).