Extremely Rare Horizontal Legend Variety

CNG 84, Lot: 788. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (34mm, 16.68 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / The Dioskouroi on horseback right, holding palms and lances; monogram to lower left. Cf. Bopearachchi 6I (curved legend); Bopearachchi & Rahman 239 (same dies); SNG ANS -. Good VF, minor areas of corrosion. Extremely rare horizontal legend type.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 81/1 (20 May 2009), lot 681.