436, Lot: 281. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I Megas. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (35mm, 16.32 g, 12h). Dynastic pedigree issue. Bust of Eukratides right, wearing helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / conjoined draped busts of Heliokles and Laodike, wearing tainia, right; monogram to left; all within bead-and-reel border. Bopearachchi 13A; HGC 12, 133. Good VF, some porosity and roughness.

From the Menlo Park Collection, purchased from Palladium Numismatics, 1998.