Triton XVIII, Lot: 222. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes I. Circa 505-480 BC. AV Twelfth Daric (6mm, 0.72 g). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type II; Meadows, Administration –; BMC Arabia p. 173, 184; Sunrise 20 (this coin). EF, lightly toned. Extremely rare denomination for series.

From the Sunrise Collection.