Ancient Gold Coins - Greek
Lot 1554 Session 6 (9:30am Wednesday 1st August) Ancient Gold Coins - Greek
Estimate $1,500
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SOLD $2,800
PERSIA - LYDIA, Achaemenid Empire, Persian Imperial Coinage (c.485-420 B.C.), struck in period of Darios I - Xerxes I, gold daric, (8.31 g), obv. bearded archer (king?) running to the right with transverse spear over shoulder, and bow in right hand, rev. oblong punch, (S.4679, Carradice type IIIb (early), Group A/B, nos.27, Pl.XIII, BMC Arabia Pl.XXIV, 26, SNG Cop. 274). Very fine and scarce.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 103 (lot 3394), Alan Jordan Collection, previously from Sale 79 (lot 3265) and Antiquarius, New Zealand, May 1998.
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