Sale: CNG 66, Lot: 727. Estimate $200.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 19 May 2004.  Sold For $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA. Achaemenid Empire. Time of Darius I-Xerxes I. Circa 485 BC. AR Siglos (5.39 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, 145-148 (same dies). Toned VF. ($200)

From the Bellaria Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica A (28 February 1991), lot 1535.