Persia. Achaemenid Empire. Uncertain mint in western Asia Minor (Ionia or Sardes?). Time of Artaxerxes III to Darios III 350-333 BC.
Bronze Æ

11 mm, 2,22 g

Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left; c/m: star within incuse circle; c/m: eight-rayed star / Incuse rectangle, containing pattern possibly depicting relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos.

very fine

Johnston, Earliest, Æ 4; Mildenberg, Münzwesen pp. 25-26 and pl. XIII, 112; BMC (Ionia) p. 34, 7.