Triton XVIII, Lot: 261. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 16.95 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY EYKPΑTIΔOY, the Dioskouroi on horses rearing right, cradling palm frond in right arms and holding couched lances in left hands; monogram to lower left. Bopearachchi 6Z; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 473 var. (position of monogram); MIG Type 177l (illustration shows Î to lower right); Qunduz 218-223 var. (same); Sunrise 230 (this coin); Gorny & Mosch 126, lot 1531. Superb EF, toned, area of weak strike in obverse border. Struck on a broad flan. Extremely rare variety with the monogram to lower left.

From the Sunrise Collection.