Sale: Triton X, Lot: 411. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2400. 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 (8.32 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. Superb EF.

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).