Artaxerxes III as Pharaoh

Triton XXI, Lot: 534. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Achaemenid Province. Artaxerxes III Okhos. As Pharaoh of Egypt, 343/2-338/7 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.25 g, 6h). Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, with profile eye, 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 II, 6a-b (O6/R6) = M.J. Price, “More from Memphis and the Syria 1989 Hoard” in Essays Carson-Jenkins, 150–1 (same dies); O. Mørkholm, “A Coin of Artaxerxes III” in NC 1974, pl. I, 7–8 var. (frontal eye); cf. Meadows, Administration 329; Mildenberg, Münzwesen 124 var. (frontal eye). Good VF, toned, slight roughness on obverse. Extremely rare, only the third known with profile eye and Demotic A script.