Triton XVIII, Lot: 249. Estimate $1000. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

UNCERTAIN EAST, Achaemenid mint in the Levant or East. Circa early-mid 4th century BC. AR Eighth Siglos (10mm, 0.67 g). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left; ‘BRZ (in Aramaic) to left, [?]TYK[?] (in Aramaic) to right / Incuse punch. Sunrise 31 (this coin), otherwise unpublished. VF, toned, minor porosity. Unique.

From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from Franz Yavorshek, 1990s.

Although placed among the royal Achaemenid issues in Sunrise, the presence of the legend, and the characteristics of the flan--broad and thin--make it more likely a local issue under Achaemenid authority from a mint in the Levant or east.