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BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (33mm, 16.90 g, 12h). Heroic bust left, seen from behind, wearing crested helmet helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear, brandishing spear in right hand / The Dioskouroi, holding couched spears and palm fronds, on horses rearing right; monogram below horses. Bopearachchi 8B; SNG ANS 484-5; HGC 12, 132. Deeply toned with iridescence. Good VF.
From the Wayne Scheible Collection. Ex CNG inventory 806822 (January 2008); Triton IX (10 January 2006), lot 1125; Antiqua FPL X (2001), no. 109; Giessener Munzhandlung 96 (7 June 1999), lot 281; Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9 September 1994), lot 551.
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