CNG 112, Lot: 367. Estimate $750. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Achaemenid Province. Sabakes. Satrap, 340-333 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 17.08 g, 9h). Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, 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, "Sabakes symbol" and SWYK (in Aramaic) to right. Van Alfen Type I, 1–18 var. (unlisted dies); Nicolet-Pierre, Monnaies 1–13 var. (unlisted dies); SNG Copenhagen 4; BMC 265. Toned, a couple countermarks. Near VF. Rare.

Sabakes, the penultimate Persian satrap in Egypt, fell in battle against Alexander the Great at Issos. His successor, Mazakes, handed over Egypt to the Macedonians in 332 BC.