Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 568. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $7250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. Time of Artaxerxes I - Xerxes II. Circa 455-420 BC. AV Daric (8.34 gm). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger and bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group A (pl. XIII, 32); BMC Arabia pg. 163, 109; SNG Copenhagen -. Superb EF. ($5000)

See lot 564 for more information on the Achaemenid coinage.