Extremely Rare Horizontal Legend Type

274, Lot: 217. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (13.35 g, 12h). Attic standard. Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / The Dioskouroi on horses rearing right, holding palms and spears; monogram to lower left. Bopearachchi 6I var. (curved legend); SNG ANS -; Bopearachchi & Rahman 239. VF, harshly cleaned, with resulting deep scratches. Extremely rare horizontal legend type.