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Triton XXII, Lot: 467. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35.5mm, 16.97 g, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY around, EYKPATIΔOY in exergue, the Dioskouroi, holding palm fronds and spears, on horses rearing right; monogram in lower left field. Bopearachchi 6Z; Bopearachchi & Rahman –; SNG ANS 473 var. (placement of monogram); MIG Type 177l; HGC 12, 131. EF, lightly toned, a few marks.