Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 637. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Agathokles. Circa 185-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.45 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 1683. VF, toned, scattered marks, reverse a little off-center. Very rare. ($2500)

From the William and Louise Fielder Collection.

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