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Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Eukratides I Megas AR Drachm. Contemporary imitation(?), circa 170-145 BC. Diademed and draped bust to right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / The Dioskouroi on horses prancing to right, each holding spear and palm; BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOY above, EYKPATIΔOY below, N in left field. Bopearachchi 7E (official issue); Mitchiner 178e (official issue); SNG ANS 475-483 var. (all different monograms); HGC 12, 136. 3.55g, 19mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine; toned.
This coin published in 'The Celator' Vol. 14, No. 7 (2000), p. 16, fig. 16;
From the inventory of a UK dealer;
Purchased from Dr. Simonian, Hamburg.
The style of this coin suggests that it may be imitative despite it's identification by both Bopearachchi and Mitchiner as an official issue. The article 'Early Central Asian Imitations I: The Coinage of Eukratides I' by David Spencer Smith which appeared in The Celator in 2000 identifies this particular coin as an imitation and plates it in figure 16 to leave us no doubt which coin he is referring to.
Near Very Fine; toned.
This coin published in 'The Celator' Vol. 14, No. 7 (2000), p. 16, fig. 16;
From the inventory of a UK dealer;
Purchased from Dr. Simonian, Hamburg.
The style of this coin suggests that it may be imitative despite it's identification by both Bopearachchi and Mitchiner as an official issue. The article 'Early Central Asian Imitations I: The Coinage of Eukratides I' by David Spencer Smith which appeared in The Celator in 2000 identifies this particular coin as an imitation and plates it in figure 16 to leave us no doubt which coin he is referring to.