PERSIA, Alexandrine Empire. temp. Stamenes – Seleukos. Satraps of Babylon, circa 328/3-311 BC. AV Daric (13mm, 8.34 g). In the types of the Achaemenid Empire. Babylon mint. VF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 398. Estimated: $ 2 000

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PERSIA, Alexandrine Empire. temp. Stamenes – Seleukos. Satraps of Babylon, circa 328/3-311 BC. AV Daric (13mm, 8.34 g). In the types of the Achaemenid Empire. Babylon mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left; to left, f above ¬ / Patterned incuse punch. Cf. Nicolet-Pierre 7 (double daric); cf. Babelon, Perses 119 = Traité II 761 = de Luynes 2817 (double daric); Triton IX, lot 1067; CNG 130, lot 270; CNG 111, lot 409. VF. Extremely rare, one of four known of this issue.

Ex Matthew Curtis Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 112, 11 September 2019), lot 366; Numismatic Fine Arts XXV (29 November 1990), lot 195; Russell Burrage Collection (Part I, Morgenthau 338, 10 October 1934), lot 224; Ars Classica XII (18 October 1926), lot 2576.

See B. Kritt, Andragoras, Double Darics, and the coinage of Alexandria on the Oxus (Lancaster, PA: Classical Numismatic Group, 2022), pp. 85–6, for a discussion of the connection of this extremely rare issue of darics to the double darics struck in Baktria.

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