Persia. Achaemenid Empire. Uncertain mint in Western Asia Minor. Time of Artaxerxes III to Darios III 350-333 BC.
Tetradrachm AR. Chian standard

24mm., 14,15g.

Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys , in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left / Incuse rectangle, containing pattern possibly depicting relief map of the hinterland of Ephesos.

nearly extremely fine

Johnston, Earliest 6; Meadows, Administration 328; Mildenberg, Münzwesen pp. 25-6 and pl. XII, 110; BMC Ionia p. 324, 3 and 6; Jameson 1787; Pozzi 3138.