| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 164 Price realized: 16,000 USD (Approx. 14,654 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Baktrian Kingdom. Plato. Silver Tetradrachm (16.92 g), ca. 145-140 BC Diademed and draped bust of Plato right, wearing a crested helmet adorned with a bull's horn and ear. Reverse: BAΣIΛEΩΣ EΠIΦANOYE ΠΛATΩNOΣ, Helios standing facing in a quadriga galloping right to upper right, MT monogram; in exergue, MZ. Bopearachchi 3A; SNG ANS 631; HGC 12, 167. Extremely Rare, being one of less than a handful of examples to appear in the market during the past 25 years. Slight double striking on the reverse. Sound metal, untoned and lustrous. NGC grade Ch AU; Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5. Brushed. Little is known about Plato nor his rise to power other than he emerged as king at some point soon after the murder of Eukratides I. Overthrowing the Euthydemid dynasty, Eukratides restored the Diodotids to power. His extensive and prestigious coinage suggests that his reign was quite prosperous and of notable import, while his military prowess expanded the borders of the Graeco-Baktrian realm as far as western India to the city of Broach in Gujarat. In 145 BC, Eukratides, on his way home from campaigning in India, was murdered at the hands of his son according to the historian Justin. His body was mutilated and dragged behind a chariot. Justin may have erred in the perpetrator as the Euthydemid prince Demetrios II may have been behind the regicide, but whoever the murderer was, the act plunged the Graeco-Baktrian realm into a terrible civil war which heralded its ultimate demise. The Indian territories were lost to the Indo-Greek king Menander, the nomadic Yuezhi invasion grew more successful, while Aï Khanoum was sacked and burnt to the ground. Amid this chaos, Plato somehow took the throne. Given his middle-age appearance on his coins, it is believed that he may have been Eukratides' brother. His kingdom seems to have been largely confined to the lands around the city of Balkh, where all of his coins appear to have been issued. Estimate: 20000 USD |  |
Match 1:
| VAuctions > NBJ Auction 11 | Auction date: 7 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 63 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: BAKTRIA: Greco-Baktrian Kingdom. Eukratides I, circa 170-145 BC. AR Drachm. Diademed and draped bust of Eukratides I to right, wearing crested Macedonian helmet adorned with bull's horn and ear. BAΣIΛEΩΣ MEΓAΛOΥ / EΥKΡATIΔOY; The Dioskouri galloping to right, each holding spear and palm branch; to lower left, monogram. (4.18gm, 20mm) Near Extremely Fine. Estimate: 500 USD Starting price: 250 USD |  |
Match 2:
| Dmitry Markov Coins & Medals | M&M Numismatics Ltd > Auction 60 | Auction date: 9 January 2024 |
| Lot number: 14 Price realized: 650 USD (Approx. 595 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Lucania, Herakleia. Silver Nomos, ca. 330/25-281 BC Aris..., magistrate. |-HPAKΛHIΩN, Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet adorned with Skylla hurling a stone on the bowl; behind neck guard, Ε. Reverse: Herakles standing facing, holding club, bow and arrow, and with lion's skin draped over arm; to upper left, owl standing right; to left, ΑΡΙΣ. Van Keuren 87; HN Italy 1385. NGC grade Ch VF. Estimate: 750 USD |  |
Match 3:
| Roma Numismatics Ltd > E-Sale 119 | Auction date: 24 April 2024 |
| Lot number: 992 Price realized: Unsold | |
| Lot description: Please note this lot is not suitable for US Import. Greco-Baktrian Kingdom, Eukratides II Soter AR Tetradrachm. Circa 145-140 BC. Diademed and draped bust to right; all within bead-and-reel border / Apollo standing facing, head to left, holding arrow in right hand and grounded bow with left; BAΣIΛEΩΣ to right, EYKPATIΔOY and monogram to left. Bopearachchi 1H; Mitchiner 164m; SNG ANS 619-22; HGC 12, 161. 16.95g, 31mm, 12h. Good Extremely Fine. Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 95, 13 April 2022, lot 505. Estimate: 600 GBP |  |
Match 4:
| Heritage World Coin Auctions > Hong Kong Signature Sale 3111 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 36033 Price realized: 1,100 USD (Approx. 1,022 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Ancients ARMENIAN KINGDOM. Tigranes II the Great (95-56 BC). AR tetradrachm (26mm, 15.74 gm, 12h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 4/5. Tigranocerta, ca. 83-70 BC. Diademed and draped bust of Tigranes II right, wearing jeweled tiara with starburst between eagles standing outward looking inward; bead-and-reel border / BAΣIΛEΩΣ / TIΓPANOY, Tyche seated right on rock, palm in outstretched right hand, river god Araxes swimming right before; AP monogram in right field, HΔ monogram on base of rock, laureate border. Kovacs 74.1. AC 30. Attractive elements weaved together on bright silky surfaces. https://coins.ha.com/itm/ancients/greek/ancients-armenian-kingdom-tigranes-ii-the-great-95-56-bc-ar-tetradrachm-26mm-1574-gm-12h-ngc-choice-au-5-5/a/3111-36033.s?type=DA-DMC-CoinArchives-WorldCoins-3111-12092023 HID02906262019 © 2023 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved Estimate: 1000-1200 USD |  |
Match 5:
| Leu Numismatik AG > Web Auction 28 | Auction date: 9 December 2023 |
| Lot number: 3011 Price realized: 130 CHF (Approx. 148 USD / 137 EUR) Note: Prices do not include buyer's fees. | |
| Lot description: Mn. Aquillius Mn.f. Mn.n, 65 BC. Denarius (Silver, 21 mm, 3.91 g, 6 h), Rome. VIRTVS III•VIR Draped bust of Virtus to right, wearing crested helmet decorated with a plume. Rev. MN AQVIL MN•F•MF•N / SICIL Warrior standing front, head to right, holding shield in his left hand and lifting up fallen figure with his right. Babelon (Aquillia) 2. Crawford 401/1. RBW 1443. Sydenham 798. Minor marks, otherwise, very fine. Ex Leu Web Auction 18, 19-21 December 2021, 2456, from the Red Ox Collection, the collection of the Czech musician Adolf Picek (circa 1885-1978), and formerly in the possession of an Italian banker, whose life was saved by Mr. Picek in the Battles of the Piave River on the Italian Front in 1917-1918 and who presented his savior with 'four socks of old coins' in reward. Starting price: 25 CHF |  |
