ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Xerxes II-Artaxerxes II (ca. 5th-4th centuries BC). AR 1/16 siglos (7mm, 0.40 gm). NGC 5/5 - 4/5. Lydo-Milesian standard, Sardes, ca. 400-350 BC. Persian king or hero, wearing cidaris and candys, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, drapery in angular form from left knee to ground, right knee obscured by drapery, transverse spear in right hand, bow forward in left / Irregular rectangular incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B. Ex Pegasi Auctions, Auction 28 (28 May 2013), lot 229
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