Triton XX, Lot: 375. Estimate $5000.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp.
Artaxerxes III to Darios III. Circa 350-333 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.18 g). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor (Ionia or Sardes?). Persian king, wearing
kidaris and
kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left / Incuse rectangle, containing pattern possibly depicting relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos. Johnston,
Earliest 6; Meadows,
Administration 328; Mildenberg,
Münzwesen pp. 25–6 and pl. XII, 110; BMC Ionia p. 324, 3 and 6; Jameson 1787; Pozzi 3138. VF, toned. Well centered.
