ACHAEMENID PERSIA. Xerxes II-Artaxerxes II (ca. 5th-4th centuries BC). AR siglos (15mm, 5.53 gm). NGC XF 3/5 - 3/5, countermarks. Lydo-Milesian standard. Sardes, ca. 375-340 BC. Persian king or hero, wearing cidaris and candys, drapery in angular form from left knee to ground, with indentation at waistline, pellets in chest drapery, quiver over shoulder, in kneeling-running stance right, bow forward in left hand, dagger pointed at waist in right / Irregular rectangular incuse punch. Carradice Type IV C.

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