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Triton XIX, Lot: 343. Estimate $2000.
Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.91 g, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY around, EYKPATIΔOY in exergue, the Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; monogram in lower right field. Bopearachchi Série 6E; MIG Type 177ee; SNG ANS 465; Bopearachchi & Rahman 240-2. EF.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Ponterio & Associates 76 (1 August 1995), lot 365 (reverse of coin illustrated on cover).