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131, Lot: 112. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1311. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Eukratides I. Circa 171-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (30mm, 16.78 g). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / Jugate draped busts of Heliokles and Laodike, diademed, right; monogram behind. Bopearachchi SÈrie 15A; SNG ANS 526. VF, minor area of reverse encrustation.

Eukratides was a usurper who successfully challenged Antimachos II and Demetrios II for the throne. While from a noble family, he was not the son of a previous Baktrian king, as evidenced by the fact that his mother, Laodike, wears the royal diadem but his father, Heliokles, does not. To strengthen his position and to declare his intentions of founding a dynasty, he struck his "pedigree" coinage, naming his parents.