271, Lot: 27. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.96 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull’s horn and ear / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY above, EYKPATIΔOY below, the Dioskouroi on horseback rearing right, each holding palm frond and spear; monogram to lower right. Bopearachchi 6E; MIG Type 177ee; Bopearachchi & Rahman 204-42; SNG ANS 465. Superb EF, golden tone around the devices, underlying luster.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex K.-D. Walkhoff-Jordan Collection (Triton II, 1 December 1998), lot 604; Giessener Münzhandlung 64 (11 October 1993), lot 251.