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Buy or Bid Sale 218  10 Feb 2022
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Lot 97

Estimate: 3000 USD
Price realized: 3000 USD
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Bactria, Euthydemus I. Tetradrachm; Bactria, Euthydemus I; 230-190 BC, Tetradrachm, 16.55g. Bop-Series 9, 13-14. Obv: Diademed head of king r. Rx: BASI?EOS on r., EYTY?HMoY Heracles seated l. on rock covered with lion's skin, holding club whose thicker end rests on a support before his r. knee; his l. arm rests on the rock behind him, below which is a PK monogram in lower inner field. Ex Frank Kovacs, Mail Bid Sale XIV, 1998, lot 82.Extremely expressive portrait. This coin usually comes rather worn and almost never as sharp as this. This coin is totally Hellenistic in that its realism shows the emperor true to life. FDC
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