Ancients
GRECO-BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Eucratides I the Great (ca. 170-145 BC). AR tetradrachm (32mm, 17.03 gm, 12h). Diademed, draped, and cuirassed bust right, wearing crested Bactrian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ, the Dioscuri on rearing horses right, each holding palm branch and wearing pileus, monogram before. Bopearachchi Série 6E. SNG ANS 467. Lightly toned over lustrous surfaces. Detailed, expressive portrait. Nearly Mint State. From The Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection. Ex Stack's (New York, April 1995), lot 167.
Estimate: 1800-2400 USD