Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 841. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. Time of Darios I to Xerxes I. Circa 485 BC. AR Siglos (5.36 g). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow; two pellets behind beard / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIa (pl. XI, 14); BMC Arabia pl. XXV, 19 (Rare). Good VF, toned.