354, Lot: 256. Estimate $100. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes I. Circa 505-480 BC. Fourrée Siglos (14mm, 5.15 g). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Incuse punch. For prototype, cf. Carradice Type II (pl. XI, 12); cf. Meadows, Administration 320; cf. BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 23. VF, toned, plating broken in the center of the obverse.