165, Lot: 77. Estimate $200. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Artaxerxes (Ardaxshir) II. Late 1st century BC. AR Drachm (20mm, 4.05 g). Bust left, wearing turreted and diademed crown; monogram (with no inner “V”) behind / Fire altar with king to right. Alram 570; BMC Arabia p. 222, 1. Good VF, light porosity. Struck on an oblong flan that preserves all the details of the bust.