Triton XVIII, Lot: 36. Estimate $6000. Sold for $10000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

CARIA, Achaemenid Period. Circa 350-334 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 15.33 g, 6h). Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow, quiver over shoulder / Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, on horseback right, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand; to left, head of bird right. Konuk, Influences, Group 7, 1 and pl. XXX, 19 (this coin illustrated); cf. Meadows, Administration 327; Sunrise 74 (this coin). EF, lightly toned, a little porosity, slightly weak on high points. Extremely rare, the only published specimen with this bird’s head control mark.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 512.