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Lot 48. Apollodotos I. AR Drachm, c. 174-165 BC

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Apollodotos I. AR Drachm, c. 174-165 BC

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Bidding closed (Sunday, March 18th, 19:24:00 CET)
Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 04:22:28 CET

Price realised: CHF 320.00 (12 bids)
Approx. EUR 343.74 / USD 358.11 / GBP 285.82

High bidder: Bidder 2

eAuction #4, Lot 48. Estimate: CHF 200.00

Kings of Bactria. Apollodotos I. (c. 174-165 BC). AR Drachm (15 mm, 2.46 g).
Obv. BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΠOΛΛOΔOTOΥ ΣΩΘHΡOΣ, elephant walking right, monogram below.
Rev. Zebu bull right, legend in Karoshti around.
Mitchiner, Indogreek, 207c; SNG ANS 317.

Golden toning. Superb extremely fine.

Apollodotos I. is one of the few Bactrian kings to be named by classic authors from the Graeco-Roman west. The Augustean historian Pompeius Trogus, who wrote a history of Alexander and his successors, apparently also described Apollodotos' life, but only a short summary of it (by Junianus Justinus) has survived. The king is also named in the Periplus Marae Erythraei, a 1st Century AD periplus describing the trading routes from Egypt to India.



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