Triton XVIII, Lot: 766. Estimate $500. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes II. Circa 485-420 BC. AR Siglos (14mm, 5.28 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 / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XII, 17); Meadows, Administration 322; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 17; Sunrise 25; Kampmann p. 27 = AdG p. 42 (this coin). Near EF, toned. Well centered and struck.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Martin Huth Collection; Sotheby’s (7 March 1996), lot 119.