150, Lot: 195. Estimate $1000. Sold for $651. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I. Circa 170-145 BC. AR Tetradrachm (31mm, 16.22 g). Bust of Eukratides right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / Conjoined busts of Heliokles and Laodike right; monogram behind. Bopearachchi Série 15A; SNG ANS 526; MIG 182a. VF, porosity.

Eukratides usurped power from Antimachos, the designated successor to Demetrios. To strengthen his position, and declaring his intentions of founding a dynasty, he struck his "pedigree" coinage, naming his parents Heliokles and his wife Laodike.