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Lot 77. 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, 19:25:40 CET)
Current time: Monday, April 29th, 13:14:12 CEST

Price realised: CHF 120.00 (7 bids)
Approx. EUR 122.83 / USD 131.65 / GBP 105.07

High bidder: Bidder 5

eAuction #59, Lot 77. Estimate: CHF 75.00

Kings of Bactria. Apollodotos I. (c. 174-165 BC). AR Drachm (16 mm, 2.39 g).
Obv. BAΣIΛEΩΣ AΠOΛΛOΔOTOΥ ΣΩΘHΡOΣ, elephant walking right, monogram below.
Rev. Zebu bull right, legend in Karoshti around.
Mitchiner, Indogreek, 207; SNG ANS 317.

Good very 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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