First Bilingual Issue of Eukratides I

CNG 93, Lot: 685. Estimate $500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Hemidrachm (17mm, 2.41 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / The Dioskouroi standing facing, each holding spear; pellet between, monogram to left. Bopearachchi 17B; Bopearachchi & Rahman 265 (same obv. die); SNG ANS –; Triton XIII, lot 256 (erroneously listed as a drachm; same obv. die). Near VF, porous. Extremely rare.