Persian Kings (BC 350-333) Tetradrachm

Artaxerxes III to Darios III, ca 350-333 BC. AR Tetradrachm (24.5mm, 15.13g, 8h). Chian standard. Halikarnassos mint(?). Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left / Prow of galley right, with hornlike akrostolion, fighting platform decorated with labrys, proembolon (upper battering ram) decorated with dolphin and an embolom (principal three pronged battering ram); wave pattern below; to right, small dolphin diagonally downward right. Unpublished and unique.

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Filename:	104003765B15D.jpg
City/Mint name:	Achaemenid Kings of Persia
Keywords:	silver / classical
References:	cf. Konuk, Coin M53 = Konuk, Influences, pl. XXX, 24 = de Luynes 2819 = Babelon, Perses 124 = Traite II 36, pl. LXXXVII, 24 = J. P. Six, â€œMonnaies grecques, inÃ©dites et incertainesâ€ in NC 1890, p. 241, 1, pl. 17, 13
Valuation:	CNG Triton XX (1/2017), lot 376 ($65,000 + comm)
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Date added:	Sep 25, 2018
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