Choice Family Tetradrachm
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 455. Estimate $10000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $7750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 171-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.96 g, 12h). Pedigree issue.
BASILEUS MEGAS EUKRATIDHS, heroic bust left, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear, seen from behind, brandishing spear in his right hand /
HLIOKLEOUS KAI LAODIKHS, jugate draped busts of Heliokles and Laodike, wearing stephane, right; monogram to left. Bopearachchi Série 16A; SNG ANS 529; MIG Type 184a; MACW -. EF, toned.
Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 652; Triton IV (5 December 2000), lot 346.