455, Lot: 190. Estimate $100. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes II. Circa 485-420 BC. AR Siglos (12.5mm, 5.56 g). Lydo-Milesian standard. 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. XXV, 17; Sunrise 25. Toned, softly struck. VF.

Ex collection of a Southern Pathologist (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 347, 25 March 2015), lot 285, purchased from C. H. Wolfe, August 1987.