Triton XVIII, Lot: 262. Estimate $2500. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.25 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 right. Cf. Bopearachchi 6X (tetradrachm); Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 479 corr. (monogram); MIG Type 178 second illustrated example, corr. (same); Triton XIV, lot 430 (same obv. die); Sunrise 231 (this coin). Superb EF, toned.

From the Sunrise Collection.