ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Xerxes II-Artaxerxes II (ca. 5th-4th centuries BC). AR 1/16 siglos (7mm, 0.34 gm). NGC Choice XF. Lydo-Milesian standard, Sardes, ca. 400-350BC. 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. BMC-. Carradice-, cf. Type IIIb (late). Klein-. SNG Kayhan-. Sunrise-, cf. 26 (1/8 Siglos). Extremely rare. Seemingly unpublished in standard references and only two other examples in sales archives.

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