Search


CNG Bidding Platform

Information

Products and Services



Research Coins: Electronic Auction

 
439, Lot: 185. Estimate $100.
Sold for $75. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EARLY SKYTHIANS, Imitating Eukratides I of Baktria. Late 2nd-mid 1st century BC. AR Obol (10mm, 0.57 g, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust of Eukratides right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / AVΣIΛΕΩ down right, EΛIIATΔ• down left, caps of the Dioskouroi, each with palm frond; monogram below. Senior A19.3; HGC 12, 153 (Skythian and Yuezhi Imitations of Baktria and Choresmia). VF, toned, obverse struck with worn die. Very rare.