377, Lot: 157. Estimate $100. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp.
Artaxerxes III to Darios III. Circa 350-333 BC. Æ (11mm, 1.39 g, 6h). Persian king, wearing
kidaris and
kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow / Two concentric squares; line projecting outward from one side of the outer square. Johnston,
Earliest, Æ 4 (with c/m); cf. Meadows,
Administration 328 (tetradrachm); Mildenberg,
Münzwesen pp. 25-26 and pl. XIII, 112; Traité II 81 (Memnon of Rhodes); BMC Ionia p. 324, 10; Sunrise 72. VF, green patina, obverse struck slightly off center.