Stephen Album Rare Coins
Auction 43 12-15 May 2022
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ACHAEMENID EMPIRE: Artaxerxes III, 359-338 BC, AR tetradrachm (15.24g), uncertain Carian mint, ca. 350-340 BC, HN Online-1714, cf. Meadows, Administration-327, Chian standard, Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, drawing bow, Aramaic MA to left // satrap Idrieus, wearing kyrbasia, riding horse galloping right and thrusting spear, Aramaic GA to left, some flatness as is typical for this type, lightly toned, EF, R.
Around 351 BC Artaxerxes launched a campaign to recover Egypt which had revolted under his father. The campaign eventually failed. Not long after that defeat Anatolia, Cyprus and Phoenicia declared their independence from Persian rule. In 343 BC Artaxerxes tasked Carian prince Idrieus with suppressing the rebellion in Cyprus. Idrieus succeded with assitance from 8000 Greek mercenaries as well as forty triremes commanced by Phocion the Athenaian and Evagoras, son of the elder Cypriot monarch Evagoras.
Estimate: 1,500-2,000 USD
Around 351 BC Artaxerxes launched a campaign to recover Egypt which had revolted under his father. The campaign eventually failed. Not long after that defeat Anatolia, Cyprus and Phoenicia declared their independence from Persian rule. In 343 BC Artaxerxes tasked Carian prince Idrieus with suppressing the rebellion in Cyprus. Idrieus succeded with assitance from 8000 Greek mercenaries as well as forty triremes commanced by Phocion the Athenaian and Evagoras, son of the elder Cypriot monarch Evagoras.
Estimate: 1,500-2,000 USD