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358, Lot: 211. Estimate $300.
Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.20 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / The Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; K to upper left. Bopearachchi Série 2 (unlisted control mark); HGC 12, 135; SNG ANS 436-442 var. (monogram). VF, toned, light scratches and deposits. Rare variety.


The K control mark is not attested on the tetradrachms and drachms of this type for Eukratides, but is known on his obols (Bopearachchi Série 3C).