65, Lot: 33. Estimate $150. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GREEK KINGS of BAKTRIA. Euthydemos I. Circa 230-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.36 gm). Mint 'B'. Struck 225-218 BC. Diademed head right / Nude Herakles sitting on rock, resting club on pile of rocks before him; monogram above right. Kritt B12; Bopearachchi Série 2A; SNG ANS -; Suse 485. VF, a little rough, but no evidence of smoothing or tooling! Rare.

This specimen confirms Kritt's hypothesis (expressed in Dynastic Transitions in the Coinage of Bactria, pg. 142, pl. B 12) that this last Tetradrachm of period 1 of Susa bears the middle-aged portrait of Euthydemos. The coin appears to be quite rare. Both Kritt and Bopearachchi illustrate the type with a very inferior specimen reported by Le Rider in Suse, trésor #3, 485, on which the portrait is barely discernable.