CNG 106, Lot: 561. Estimate $750. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos I Theos Megas. Circa 225-200/195 BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.26 g, 12h). Mint A (near Aï Khanoum). Struck circa 225-220/215 BC. Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock, holding club set on rocks; monogram to inner right. Kritt A1; Bopearachchi 5B; O. Bopearachchi & W. Pieper, “Over-struck and Double-struck” ONS Newsletter 178 (Winter 2004), p. 20 (this coin referenced and illustrated); SNG ANS 127; HGC 12, 40. Near EF, areas of light toning, slightly double struck. Possibly overstruck on a Mint A tetradrachm of Diodotos I in the name of Antiochos II of Syria (SNG ANS 77).

From the Dr. Wilfried Pieper Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 58 (19 September 2001), lot 849.