Watch List notes:

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Artaxerxes III to Darios III. Circa 341-334 BC. AR Tetradrachm (23mm, 14.30 g, 1h). Chian standard. Uncertain mint in Caria. Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow; Aramaic ṣ to left, two Aramaic 'ayinto right / Warrior, wearing kyrbasia, on horseback right, thrusting spear he holds aloft in right hand; star above. Konuk, Influences, Group 8, 2 and pl. XXX, 22; cf. Meadows, Administration 327; Mildenberg, Münzwesen –; SNG Ashmolean (Caria) 381. VF, toned, area of weak strike, slight die shift on obverse, flan flaws on reverse.


Ex New York Sale IX (13 January 2005), lot 124.