Watch List notes:

PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Xerxes II to Artaxerxes II. Circa 420-375 BC. AV Daric (15mm, 8.40 g). Persian king or hero, wearing kidaris and kandys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left / Incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group C (pl. XIV, 42); Meadows, Administration 323; BMC Arabia pl. XXV, 12; Sunrise –. Near EF, a little die wear on obverse. Well centered. Rare.


From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Prospero Collection (New York Sale XXVII, 4 January 2012), lot 621, purchased from G. Müller, 5 February 1985.