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ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Xerxes II-Artaxerxes II (5th-4th centuries BC). AV daric (17mm, 8.38 gm). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes, ca. 420-375 BC. Persian king or hero, wearing cidaris and candys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drapery in long curve from left knee to right ankle, right knee obscured by drapery, transverse spear in right hand, bow forward in left / Irregular rectangular incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group C. Sunrise 28. Perfectly centered on oblong flan, struck from dies of superb style.
From the Paramount Collection. Ex Leu Numismatic, Auction 86 (5 May 2003), lot 447
The Achaemenid Persian Empire was the first long-lasting multinational state and in many ways the prototype for the Hellenistic and Roman Empires that followed. After the conquest of the Lydian Kingdom circa 546 BC, the Achaemenids quickly adopted the Lydian concept of coinage and converted the recently invented gold stater into a new denomination, the daric, named after the Persian Great King Darius. Darics depict a stylized image of the Great King in a martial pose, which changed in design over the following centuries. On this issue we see him rendered in a particularly regal form, his long torso well-proportioned and elaborately draped, with a diagonal fold on his upper torso sharply defined and facial features displaying fierce determination.
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ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Xerxes II-Artaxerxes II (5th-4th centuries BC). AV daric (17mm, 8.38 gm). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5, Fine Style. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes, ca. 420-375 BC. Persian king or hero, wearing cidaris and candys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drapery in long curve from left knee to right ankle, right knee obscured by drapery, transverse spear in right hand, bow forward in left / Irregular rectangular incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group C. Sunrise 28. Perfectly centered on oblong flan, struck from dies of superb style.
From the Paramount Collection. Ex Leu Numismatic, Auction 86 (5 May 2003), lot 447
The Achaemenid Persian Empire was the first long-lasting multinational state and in many ways the prototype for the Hellenistic and Roman Empires that followed. After the conquest of the Lydian Kingdom circa 546 BC, the Achaemenids quickly adopted the Lydian concept of coinage and converted the recently invented gold stater into a new denomination, the daric, named after the Persian Great King Darius. Darics depict a stylized image of the Great King in a martial pose, which changed in design over the following centuries. On this issue we see him rendered in a particularly regal form, his long torso well-proportioned and elaborately draped, with a diagonal fold on his upper torso sharply defined and facial features displaying fierce determination.
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HID02906262019
© 2020 Heritage Auctions | All Rights Reserved
Estimate: 1000-2000 USD