Artaxerxes III as Pharaoh

Triton XVI, Lot: 582. Estimate $2000. Sold for $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Achaemenid Province. Artaxerxes III Okhos. As Pharaoh of Egypt, 343/2-338/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (21mm, 16.41 g, 9h). Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, wearing earring and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; to left, olive spray and crescent above ZHK (in Aramaic); to right, two-line script of uncertain type. Van Alfen Type IVa, 10b (O10/R10 – this coin); M.J. Price, “More from Memphis and the Syria 1989 Hoard” in Essays Carson-Jenkins, 154 (same dies); L. Anderson & P.G. van Alfen, “A fourth century BCE hoard from the Near East” in AJN 20, 42–3. VF, toned, minor porosity. Extremely rare, one of four known with these inscriptions, two of which are in a public collection (ANS).

From a Continental Collection. Ex Auctiones 20 (8 November 1990), lot 512.