CNG 100, Lot: 1598. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1101. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp.
Artaxerxes III to Darios III. Circa 341-334 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.30 g, 1h). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in Caria. Persian king, wearing
kidaris and
kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow; Aramaic ṣ to left, two Aramaic
‘ayinto right / Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, on horseback right, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand; star above. Konuk,
Influences, Group 8, 2 and pl. XXX, 22; cf. Meadows,
Administration 327; Mildenberg,
Münzwesen –; SNG Ashmolean (Caria) 381. VF, toned, area of weak strike, slight die shift on obverse, flan flaws on reverse.
Ex New York Sale IX (13 January 2005), lot 124.