Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 704. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA. Achaemenid Empire. Time of Darios I-Xerxes I. Circa 505-480 BC. AR Siglos (5.25 gm). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type II (pl. XI, 12-13); Carradice, "Two Achaemenid Hoards," NC 1998, 63-66 (same reverse punch). Good VF, granularity. Scarce early issue. ($300)