403, Lot: 285. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp.
Artaxerxes II to Artaxerxes III. Circa 400-341 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 15.12 g, 12h). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in Caria. Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, on horseback right, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand; to left, head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Persian king, wearing
kidaris and
kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow. Konuk,
Influences, Group 5, 4 and pl. XXX, 17; Meadows,
Administration 327 var. (BA on obv.); Mildenberg,
Münzwesen pp. 26–7, and pl. XIV, 122–3 var. (letters on obv.); Sunrise 73–4 var. (controls on rev.). VF, slightly off center, test cut on reverse.