Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 808. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Eukratides I. Circa 171-145 BC. AR Drachm (2.42 gm, 12h). Bilingual series. Helmeted, diademed, and draped bust right / The Dioskouroi standing facing, holding spears. Bopearachchi Série 17A; SNG ANS -. Good VF. Extremely rare, the second known example (the other, struck from the same obverse die, is in the BN). ($5000)

Bilingual drachms of Eukratides are extremely rare, with only six examples known to Bopearachchi, of which only one had this particular monogram. Bopearachchi noted that this monogram was unknown among all the other bilingual coinages of Eukratides.