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CNG 93, Lot: 684. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 17.02 g, 11h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; monogram to lower right. Bopearachchi 6DD var. (monogram); Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 474 var. (same); MIG Type 177dd var. (same). EF, minor hairline flan crack. Struck on a broad flan. Unpublished with this monogram.