BACTRIAN KINGDOM. Eucratides I the Great (ca. 170-145 BC). AR tetradrachm (34mm, 17.01 gm, 11h). NGC MS 5/5 - 5/5. Draped and cuirassed bust of Eucratides I right, seen from front, wearing crested Bactrian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear; bead-and-reel border / ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΜΕΓΑΛΟY / ΕΥΚΡΑΤΙΔΟΥ, the Dioscuri on horses prancing right, both with couched spear in right hand, palm in left over shoulder; ΔΝΦ monogram in lower right field. HGC 12, 131. Bopearachchi 6F. Struck from fresh, high relief dies, on massive, lustrous flan, with scattered areas of red orange toning. From the Paramount Collection

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