Extraordinary Countermark on a Siglos

416, Lot: 293. Estimate $100. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Xerxes II to Artaxerxes II. Circa 420-375 BC. AR Siglos (15.5mm, 5.02 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes or subsidiary mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left / Incuse punch; c/m: letters (EV?) above lion walking right, all within incuse rectangle. Carradice Type IV, Group B (pl. XIV, 43); cf. Meadows, Administration 326 (Type IV, Group C); BMC Arabia pl. XXVII, 10. Fine, toned, some find patina remaining, test punches.