Artaxerxes III as Pharaoh

Triton XIX, Lot: 322. Estimate $3000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. Artaxerxes III Okhos. 358-338 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 15.35 g, 9h). Imitating Athens. Uncertain mint in Egypt (Memphis?). As Pharaoh of Egypt, 343/2-338 BC. 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 A script to right. Van Alfen Type I, unlisted dies; M.J. Price, “More from Memphis and the Syria 1989 Hoard” in Essays Carson-Jenkins, 147–9; O. Mørkholm, “A Coin of Artaxerxes III” in NC 1974, pl. I, 7–8; cf. Meadows, Administration 329; Mildenberg, Münzwesen 124. VF, toned, faint cleaning marks, a few minor deposits. Extremely rare, only five examples noted by Van Alfen.

Ex Kolner Münzkabinett 17 (6 October 1975), lot 49.