436, Lot: 261. Estimate $300. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Artaxerxes II to Artaxerxes III. Circa 400-341 BC. AR Tetradrachm (22mm, 15.28 g, 6h). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in Caria. Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow; BA to left / Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand, on horse galloping right. Konuk, Influences, Group 5, 1, and pl. XXX, 14 var. (head of Herakles on obv.); Meadows, Administration 327 var. (same); Mildenberg, Münzwesen pp. 26–7 and pl. XIII, 122 var. (same); Sunrise 73–4 var. (controls marks). VF, toned, smoothed and some tooling, test cut repaired on reverse. SOLD AS IS, NO RETURNS.