Commemorative Issue for Euthydemos I Theos

Triton XXII, Lot: 462. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Antimachos I Theos. Circa 180-170 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32.5mm, 16.94 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Euthydemos I Theos. EYΘYΔHMOY down right, ΘEOY down left, diademed head of Euthydemos righ / BAΣIΛEYONTOΣ down right, ΑNTIMAXOY down left, ΘEOY in exergue, Herakles seated left on rocky outcropping, holding club set on knee; monogram to inner right. Bopearachchi 10A; Bopearachchi & Rahman 191-192; SNG ANS 297-298; MIG Type 129; HGC 12, 108. Good VF. Very rare, only eight other specimens known.