Triton XIV, Lot: 425. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos II. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 17.04 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / BAΣIΛEΩΣ down right field, EY ΘYΔHMOY down left, Herakles standing facing, holding wreath in extended hand, cradling club in arm draped with lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1B; Bopearachchi & Rahman 141; SNG ANS -; MIG Type 113a; Leu 91, 198 (same obv. die). Near EF, areas of porosity on slightly double-struck reverse. Very rare monogram for this king.

Bopearachchi cites only three specimens for this type: two are in the Berliner Münzkabinett; the third, owned by Maj. Gen. Alexander Cunningham, was published by him in his Coins of Alexander’s Successors in the East (Delhi, 1970), pl. III, 3.