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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 726. Estimate $200. 
Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004. 
Sold For $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA. Achaemenid Empire. Time of Darius I-Xerxes I. Circa 485 BC. AR Siglos (5.38 gm). Persian king or hero in kneeling/running stance right, holding spear and bow; two pellets behind beard / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIa (pl. XI, 14-15); Carradice, "Two Achaemenid Hoards," NumChron 1998, 110-118 (same reverse punch). Good VF. ($200)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Monetarium List 55 (Spring 1991), lot 122.