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Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Eukratides I Megas AR Tetradrachm. Contemporary imitation(?), circa 170-145 BC. Diademed and draped bust to right, wearing crested helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; all within bead-and-reel border / The Dioskouroi on horses prancing to right, each holding spear and palm; ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟΥ above, ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ below, monogram in left field. For prototype cf. Bopearachchi 6J; SNG ANS 464-474 for types with different monogram; Mitchiner, Type 177z; HGC 12, 131. 16.20g, 33mm, 12h.
Near Very Fine; edges of flan folded on reverse.
From the inventory of a UK dealer;
Privately purchased from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., July 1996.
The unusual appearance of this coin, with a large obverse portrait and an unpublished monogram leads the cataloguer to suspect that this coin may be a contemporary imitation.
Near Very Fine; edges of flan folded on reverse.
From the inventory of a UK dealer;
Privately purchased from A. H. Baldwin & Sons Ltd., July 1996.
The unusual appearance of this coin, with a large obverse portrait and an unpublished monogram leads the cataloguer to suspect that this coin may be a contemporary imitation.