Sale: Triton X, Lot: 452. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Antimachos I. Circa 180-165 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.97 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Euthydemos I. EUQUDHMOU QEOU, diademed head of Euthydemos right / BASILEUONTOS ANTIMACOU QEOU, Herakles seated left on rock, holding in his right hand a club set on rock beside his knee, left hand resting on rock; monogram to right of rock. Bopearachchi Série 10A; SNG ANS 297-298; MIG Type 129; MACW 1663; Qunduz 99 (same obv. die). Good VF, toned with traces of iridescence in devices, small hairline flan crack and flan flaws on reverse. Very rare, only seven other specimens known.