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CNG 100, Lot: 108. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes I. Circa 505-480 BC. AV Twelfth Daric (6mm, 0.72 g). Sardes mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type II; Meadows, Administration –; BMC Arabia p. 173, 184; Sunrise 20 (this coin). EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare denomination for series.


From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex Sunrise Collection (Triton XVIII, 6 January 2015), lot 222.