133, Lot: 115. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1313. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of BAKTRIA. Eukratides I. Circa 171-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 15.33 g). Commemorative series. Helmeted and diademed heroic bust left, holding spear / Jugate draped busts of Heliokles and Laodike, diademed, right; monogram behind. Bopearachchi Sèrie 16A; SNG ANS 526. Near VF, heavy find patina, light porosity, lamination crack on obverse.

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 hi