Vicious Little Achaemenid King

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Here are a few of my Persians.
PERSIA, Achaemenid Empire. temp. Darios I to Xerxes I. Circa 505-480 BC. AR Sixth Siglos (7mm, 0.84 g).


PERSIA. Achaemenid Empire. Time of Artaxerxes I to Xerxes II (Circa 455-420 BC). 1/4 Siglos. 8mm 1.32g.


Artaxerxes II - Darius III, c. 375 - 340 B.C., Silver siglos, Carradice Type IV (late) C, 46 ff.; BMC Arabia 172 ff.; SNG Kayhan 1031; SGCV II 4683; Rosen 674; Klein 763; Carradice Price p. 77 and pl. 20, 387 ff.


ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIRE. Time of Darius I - Xerxes II Circa 485-420 B.C.E. AV daric. 16mm, 8.36g

 

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Wow Nemo => you have fantastic coin-skills!! (gorgeous, congrats on those babies!!)

 

Those are all nice Nemo.

 

Nemo, I only have a hardcopy version he updated to include mine and other recent coins. I will ask him at our next club meeting if we can put his research online. I will let everyone know if we do.

 

Thanks for the kind comments. Medoraman, that would be great if it works out, thanks again.

 

Achaemenid Kings of Persia
Time of Darios I to Xerxes I c. 485-450 BC. Time of the War with Greece
AR Silver Siglos 17 mm x 5.51g
Sardes Mint
Persian Hero King in Kneeling -running stance right, holding spear and bow
Reverse: Incuse punch, bankers mark.
Ref: Carradice Type IIIa (pl. xi, 14); Carradice, " Two Achaemenid Hoards", in NumChron 1998, 136-7.

 

cool banker's mark, Noob

 

Thanks steve! You know how I love them countermarks!

 

Hi,

do you think this siglos Carradice Type I also bear the inverted die?


Moreover, do you know how to get your friend's book about Carradice Type I sigloi on CGN?

 

Darn.. if only I have an Achaemenid to share too.. but all the sigloi here are amazing...

 

I could try to pull out his book tonight and see which reverse die this one is. Maybe someday Bill will publish this article, but right now he is simply updating with any examples he finds. Its his pet project. Btw, its Bill Daehn, the author who has written the definitive book on numismatic references that you can buy at CNG.

 

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread and shared your knowledge. I purchased this coin over a decade ago to complement my Greek fractional collection, but knew next to nothing about it. Now I do

[oops! experimenting with new photo software, and I am having trouble making this smaller...it's a tiny coin...my apologies!]


Lydia, under Persian rule
Issued by Darius I, 510-486 BC
Type 2 AR 1/6 siglos, .8gm - 7 mm
Obv: The Great King kneeling right; shooting bow
Rx: Incuse punch

 

It is interesting that counterfeiters began working not long after the invention of coinage. Here is an ancient fake of the siglos type:



You can see the copper under the silver plating, especially on the image of the edge. (See the recent fourree thread:
https://www.cointalk.com/threads/mu...us-fourée-denarius.270214/page-2#post-2265385 )

Give people something new and they will soon figure out how to do something criminal with it (witness the internet).

 

WOW, that is a new one to me. That is a rapid counterfeiting scheme so soon after the first issuance of coinage! Buy some copper, wash it with silver, BOOM 10x value! Thanks Valentinian!