| Classical Numismatic Group > Triton XXVII | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 398 Price realized: 9,500 USD (Approx. 8,701 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles Dikaios. Circa 185-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.83 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / BAΣIΛEYΩΣ to right, AΓAΘOKΛEOYΣ to left, Zeus standing facing, holding scepter in left hand, and in right hand a statue of Hekate, who holds torch in each hand; monogram to inner left. Unpublished in the standard references. Light iridescent toning, circulation marks, slight double strike on obverse, edge marks. Near EF. From the Columbus Collection, purchased from Freeman & Sear, 2003. Agathokles Dikaios ("the Just") is a near complete mystery to us in terms of his origins, rise to power and the extent of his realm. On his rare "pedigree" coinage he claims the previous Baktrian Kings Diodotos I, Euthydemos and Demetrios as his ancestors; however these were from rival houses and unlikely to be his true relations. The available evidence supports the conclusion that he was a usurper who seized control, or was appointed to rule, a portion of the vast, unwieldy kingdom along with his contemporaries Antimachos Theos, Pantaleon and Apollodotos I, whose coins were struck in the same 20 year span. Of his character we can deduce little aside from the personality hinted at by his extraordinary coin portraits, which depict a lean man with a head of tight, curly hair, a sharply pointed nose, compressed lips, and a bit of a mad gleam in his eye. This remarkable tetradrachm bears a particularly fine portrait. It also has a monogram – E above Y – that is hitherto unrecorded in the standard references and has not appeared in any auction record, making it unique according to current scholarship. Estimate: 3000 USD |  |
Match 1:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 555 | Auction date: 7 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 269 Price realized: 800 USD (Approx. 746 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos II. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 16.36 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Herakles standing facing, holding wreath in extended hand, cradling club in arm draped with lion skin; monogram to inner left. Bopearachchi 1B; MPHB Group II; SNG ANS –; HGC 12, 72. Deposits, porosity, light roughness, delaminations and flan flaw on obverse. Good VF. Very rare monogram. Estimate: 500 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 555 | Auction date: 7 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 268 Price realized: 300 USD (Approx. 280 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos II. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Tetradrachm (36mm, 15.17 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Herakles standing facing, holding wreath, club, and lion skin; monogram to left. Bopearachchi 1C; MPHB Group IV; HGC 12, 72. Deposits and horn silver, porous, cleaning marks/smoothing, a couple of delaminations on reverse, broken and repaired. Good VF. Fragile and in protective capsule. Estimate: 250 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 557 | Auction date: 6 March 2024 |
| Lot number: 161 Price realized: 1,100 USD (Approx. 1,013 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Agathokles Dikaios. Circa 185-175 BC. AR Tetradrachm (32mm, 15.76 g, 12h). Commemorative issue struck for Antiochos III of Syria. ANTIOXOY to right, NIKATOPOΣ to left, diademed head of Euthydemos right / BAΣIΛEONTOS to right, AΓAΘOKΛEOYΣ to left; DIKAIOY in exergue, Zeus Bremetes, seen from behind, advancing left, extended left arm draped with aegis, preparing to hurl thunderbolt in right hand; in inner left field, wreath above above eagle standing left; monogram to right. Bopearachchi 13A; Bopearachchi & Rahman 164; MPHB 125 (O21bis/R64); SNG ANS –; MIG –; HGC 12, 87. Toned, porosity, cleaning marks, smoothing, crystallized, slightly bent flan. Good VF. Estimate: 1000 USD |  |
Match 4:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 560 | Auction date: 17 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 349 Price realized: 400 USD (Approx. 376 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Heliokles Dikaios. Circa 145-130 BC. AR Drachm (21mm, 3.38 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Zeus standing facing, holding thunderbolt and scepter; ΠΓ in exergue. Bopearachchi 2D; SNG ANS –; HGC 12, 171. Lightly toned, traces of deposits in devices, minor flan cracks and edge laminations, scrapes in reverse field. Good VF. Ex Hess-Divo 341 (13 December 2023), lot 45; Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 529 (14 December 2022), lot 403. Estimate: 200 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Classical Numismatic Group > Electronic Auction 555 | Auction date: 7 February 2024 |
| Lot number: 270 Price realized: 200 USD (Approx. 187 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA, Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Euthydemos II. Circa 185-180 BC. AR Drachm (19mm, 4.24 g, 12h). Diademed and draped bust right / Herakles standing facing, holding wreath in right hand, club and lion's skin in left; monogram to lower left. Bopearachchi 2C; MPHB Group I; SNG ANS –; HGC 14, 73. Iridescent toning, deposits in devices. Near VF. Estimate: 300 USD |  |
