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Lot 76. Apollodotos I. AR Drachm, c. 174-165 BC
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Bidding closed
(Sunday, February 19th, 19:38:00 CET)
Current time: Sunday, November 24th, 02:53:31 CET
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CHF 95.00 (2 bids)
Approx. EUR 102.05 / USD 106.31 / GBP 84.85
Bid history
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CHF 95.00
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Bidder 2 *
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2012-02-18, 07:57:04
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CHF 90.00
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Bidder 1 *
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2012-02-12, 18:53:35
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* User names of other bidders are replaced by Bidder 1, 2, and so on.
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Bidder 2
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eAuction #3, Lot 76. Estimate: CHF 100.00
Kings of Bactria. Apollodotos I. (c. 174-165 BC). AR Drachm (16 mm, 2.33 g).
Obv. BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΠOΛΛOΔOTOΥ ΣΩΘHΡOΣ, elephant walking right, monogram below.
Rev. Zebu bull right, legend in Karoshti around.
Mitchiner, Indogreek, 207c; SNG ANS 317.
Good very fine.
Ex F. R. Künker 89 (2004), 1595.
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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