Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 983. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. Time of Darios I to Xerxes II. Circa 485-420 BC. AV Daric (8.39 g). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running right, holding spear and bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb A/B (pl. XIII 27); BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 26. EF. Well centered and struck.