Watch List notes:

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Artaxerxes II to Artaxerxes III. Circa 400-341 BC. AR Tetradrachm (20mm, 15.33 g, 6h). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in Caria. Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow / Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, on horseback right, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand. Konuk, Influences, Group 1, 1 and pl. XXX, 8; cf. Meadows, Administration 327; Mildenberg, Münzwesen pp. 25–6 and pl. XII, 117; SNG Ashmolean (Caria) 377. VF, lightly toned. Rare this well centered and struck.


Ex Gemini IX (9 January 2012), lot 216.