383, Lot: 239. Estimate $100. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes II. Circa 485-420 BC. AR Siglos (13mm, 5.53 g). Sardes mint. Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear and bow / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XII, 17); Meadows, Administration 322; BMC Arabia pl. XXIV, 17. VF, lightly toned, countermarks on obverse and edge (ΟΣ). Struck from a worn obverse die.

From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind.