CNG 103, Lot: 392. Estimate $1000.
Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp.
Artaxerxes II to Artaxerxes III. Circa 400-341 BC. AR Tetradrachm (20mm, 15.33 g, 6h). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in Caria. Persian king, wearing
kidaris and
kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, on horseback right, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand. Konuk,
Influences, Group 1, 1 and pl. XXX, 8; cf. Meadows,
Administration 327; Mildenberg,
Münzwesen pp. 26–7 and pl. XIII, 117; Sunrise 73–4 var. (controls on rev.). VF, lightly toned. Rare this well centered and struck.
Ex Gemini IX (9 January 2012), lot 216.
