393, Lot: 202. Estimate $2500. Sold for $4510. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Baydād (Bagadat). Early 3rd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (28mm, 16.18 g, 3h). Istakhr (Persepolis) mint. Head right, with short beard, mustache, and earring, wearing kyrbasia with flaps tied behind / Fire temple of Ahura-Mazda; to left, Baydād standing right; standard to right. K&M 2/3; Alram 515; cf. Sunrise 560 (for type, but with different legend placement). Good VF, toned, fields heavily smoothed, evidence of tooling, roughness. Overstruck on an uncertain Alexander type.