Watch List notes:

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II. Circa 455-420 BC. AV Daric (16mm, 8.31 g). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding dagger in right hand, bow in left / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IV, Group A (pl. XIII, 32); Meadows, Administration –; BMC Arabia pl. XXVI, 9; Sunrise 27 (this coin). Superb EF, lustrous. Very rare.


From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Triton VIII (11 January 2005), lot 568.