Sale: CNG 79, Lot: 459. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 17 September 2008.  Sold For $870. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. Time of Darios I to Xerxes I. Circa 505-480 BC. AR Siglos (5.23 g). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type II (pl. XI, 12); BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 23. Good VF, toned, surfaces a little granular. Well centered.