95, Lot: 78. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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KINGS of PERSIS. Artaxerxes (Ardashir) II. Circa late 1st century BC. AR Drachm (22mm, 3.82 gm). Bust left, wearing diadem and Persepolitan crown with stepped battlements; monogram behind / King standing left, holding sceptre; lit altar to left. Alram 570; BMC Arabia pg. 222, 1; De Morgan pl. XXXI, 14. Good VF, darkly toned, overstruck on an earlier type.