Establishing a Monogram Sequence
BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.84 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border, BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY EYKPATIΔOY, the Dioskouroi right on horseback with horses rearing, holding reins and palm fronds over right shoulders in left hands and spears in right hands; Bopearachchi Série 6T monogram to lower right with traces of Bopearachchi Série 6U underneath. Bopearachchi 6T; Bopearachchi & Rahman 244 var. (monogram; same obv. die); SNG ANS 468; HGC 12. Minor traces of deposits, minor cleaning marks, a few minor marks on edge. EF. Struck in high relief with dies of fine style.
Ex MACM inventory MMoCA21C; Triton XIII (5 January 2010), lot 257.
This specimen establishes that in Bopearachchi 6, monogram 6U preceded monogram 6T, as traces of the former are visible underneath the latter.
