452, Lot: 478. Estimate $75. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Artaxerxes III to Darios III. Circa 350-333 BC. Æ Unit (11.5mm, 1.62 g). Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor (Ionia or Sardes?). Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left; B[A] to left / Incuse rectangle, containing pattern possibly depicting relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos. Johnston, Earliest, Æ 1–4; cf. Meadows, Administration 328 (tetradrachm); Mildenberg, Münzwesen pp. 25-26 and pl. XIII, 112; BMC Ionia p. 324, 7. Green-brown patina, rough surfaces, countermark on obverse. Fine.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection.