Description
Achaemenid Empire, time of Xerxes I ‘the Great’ to Darius II Ochus of the Achaemenid Dynasty, Gold Daric (8.39g, 15x12mm), Sardis mint, Satrapy of Sparda (Lydia), circa 485-420 BC. Obverse: The King of Kings or a Persian Hero faces right in a kneeling-running stance, wearing kidaris (headdress) and draped in royal kandys (court robe), and wielding bow aloft in left hand and spear in right. Reverse: Single oblong, incuse punch. Carradice Type IIIb, Group A/B (pl. XII, 27); Sunrise-24. Graded by NGC as Almost Uncirculated (Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5). A nicely centred example with rather fairly well struck devices.
