ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Time of Artaxerxes II-Darius III (ca. 400-336 BC). AR daric (18mm, 8.36 gm). NGC Choice XF 5/5 - 4/5. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes, ca. 375-336 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 / Rectangular patterned incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb Late (pl. XV, 50). Sunrise 39.

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