420, Lot: 289. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos I Theos Megas. Circa 225-200/195 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.40 g, 12h). Uncetain mint. Diademed head right / Herakles seated left on rock draped with lion skin, holding club set on knee; IΠ in exergue. Kritt, p. 147 (second illustration) = O. Bopearachchi, “The Euthydemus Imitations and the Date of Sogdian Independence,” Silk Road Art and Archaeology 2, fig. 14 = MIG Type 39a = BM Inv. 1938, 1212.2 (same dies); Bopearachchi –; HGC 12, –. VF, some weakness.

From the David Nelson Collection.