Extremely Rare Horizontal Legend Type

Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 681. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.68 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / The Dioskouroi on horseback right, holding palms and lances; monogram to lower left. Cf. Bopearachchi Série 6I (curved legend); SNG ANS -; Bopearachchi & Rahman 239 (same dies). Good VF, minor areas of corrosion. Extremely rare horizontal legend type.