Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 636. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Agathokles. Circa 185-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.78 gm, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Euthydemos I. EUQUDEMOU QEOU, diademed head of Euthydemos I right / BASILEUONTOS DIKAIOU AGAQOKLEOUS, Herakles seated left on rock, holding in his right hand a club set on rocks beside his knee; monogram to right of rock. Bopearachchi Série 16B; SNG ANS 261; MIG Type 145a; MACW 1682. EF, toned. Very rare. ($7500)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 40 (with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1129 (incorrect description).

See lot 633 for more information on the "pedigree" coinage of Agathokles.