59, Lot: 82. Estimate $300. 

  GREEK KINGS of BAKTRIA. Euthydemos I. Circa 
  230-200 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 16.36 gm). 
  Attic Standard. Mint 'B'. Struck 225-218 BC. 
  Diademed head right / Nude Herakles sitting on 
  rock, resting club on pile of rocks before him; 
  monogram above right. Kritt B12; Bopearachchi 
  Série 2A; SNG ANS -; Suse 485. VF, a little 
  rough, but no evidence of smoothing or tooling! 
  Rare.
  This specimen confirms Kritt's hypothesis (in 
  Dynastic Transitions in the Coinage of Bactria, 
  pg. 142, pl. B 12) that this last Tetradrachm of 
  period 1 of Susa does bear the middle-aged 
  portrait of Euthydemos. The coin appears to be 
  quite rare. Both Kritt and Bopearachchi 
  illustrate the type with a very inferior 
  specimen reported by Le Rider in Suse, trésor 
  #3, 485, on which the portrait is barely 
  discernable.

  Closing Date And Time: Feb 26, 2003 
  Current Date And Time: Jul 13, 2003 9:41:10 PM 
  EST.