Sale: Triton VII, Lot: 539. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 12 January 2004.  Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of PERSIS. Artaxerses (Ardaxsir) I. Early-mid 3rd century BC. AR Drachm (4.11 gm). Head right, with moustache, wearing diadem and satrapal cap (kyrbasia) / Fire temple of Ahura-Mazda, on left, Artaxerses standing right, to right, standard, Aramaic legend to left and in exergue. Alram 521 var. (legends); BMC Arabia pg. 198, 2 var. (same); De Morgan pg. 402, 13a (Autophradate I). EF. Rare. ($1000)

Ex Sotheby's (29-30 September 1988), lot 385 (part of).

The letters on this coin are retrograde, with some also inverted.