Artaxerxes III as Pharaoh

Triton XVIII, Lot: 772. Estimate $5000. Sold for $16500. 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 (22mm, 16.85 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; olive spray and crescent to left, “Artaxerxes Pharaoh” in two-line Demotic B script to right. Van Alfen Type III, 9 (O9/R9 – this coin); M.J. Price, “More from Memphis and the Syria 1989 Hoard” in Essays Carson-Jenkins, 152–3; O. Mørkholm, “A Coin of Artaxerxes III” in NC 1974, pl. I, 5; SNG Copenhagen 2. Near EF, toned, a few minor deposits. Extremely rare, one of only three known with these inscriptions.

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Triton II (1 December 1998), lot 515.