ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Time of Artaxerxes III-Darius III (ca. 350-333 BC). AR tetradrachm (21mm, 15.23 gm, 6h). NGC VF 2/5 - 4/5. Uncertain mint in Caria, ca. 350-341 BC. Persian king or hero, wearing cidaris and candys, advancing right and drawing bow / Warrior, wearing cyrbasia, galloping right, thrusting with spear in right hand. Chapter IX, Pixodaros, 30-31. SNG Copenhagen 290-291 var. (no control). Babelon-Paris pl. XVII, 16 (Salamis). Scarce, and from an interesting series worthy of study. Ex Harlan J. Berk Ltd., private sale with old dealer's tag Much of our knowledge about this rather enigmatic Persian royal coinage series comes from the Pixodaros Hoard, which accounts for over half of the known specimens. It was previously believed that this coinage might have been an emergency issue struck in the twilight years of the Persian Empire, but it is now thought that the coinage was at least somewhat regular, owing to the wide variety of dies found among the examples of the hoard.

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