Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 985. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $1050. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. Time of Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II. Circa 455-420 BC. AV Daric (8.33 g). Persian king or hero in kneeling-running right, holding dagger and bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IV A (pl. XIII, 32); BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 9. Good VF.

The punch used for the reverse of this coin originally had a small lion’s head engraved in it, but the lion’s head has since been erased from the die (cf. Triton IX, 1065).