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Triton XIV, Lot: 430. Estimate $500.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 4.23 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛΟΥ above, EYKPATIΔOY below, the Dioskouroi on rearing horses right, holding palm fronds and spears; monogram in lower right field. Bopearachchi 7 (monogram unlisted); Bopearachchi & Rahman -; SNG ANS 479 corr. (monogram; same obv. die); MIG Type 178 (monogram unlisted); CNG E-112, 91 (same obv. die). Good VF, lightly toned, small flan flaw in obverse field, light scratches on reverse under tone. Extremely rare monogram.