Establishing a Monogram Sequence

Sale: Triton XIII, Lot: 257. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 4 January 2010.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.84 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY EYKPATIΔOY, the Dioskouroi right on horseback with horses rearing, holding reins and palm fronds over right shoulders in left hands and spears in right hands; Bopearachchi Série 6T monogram to lower right with traces of Bopearachchi Série 6U underneath. Bopearachchi 6T; Bopearachchi & Rahman 244 var. (monogram; same obv. die); SNG ANS 468. EF, minor traces of deposits. Struck in high relief with dies of fine style.

This specimen establishes that in Bopearachchi 6, monogram 6U preceded monogram 6T, as traces of the former are visible underneath the latter.