Triton XVI, Lot: 580. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II. Circa 455-420 BC. AV Daric (12mm, 8.32 g). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running right, holding dagger and bow / Rectangular incuse punch. Carradice Type IV A (pl. XIII, 32); BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 9. Superb EF.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Triton X (9 January 2007), lot 411.

The punch used for the reverse of this coin originally had a small lion’s head engraved in it, but the lion’s head has since been erased from the die (cf. Triton IX, 1065).