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Message:: [QUOTE="Loong Siew, post: 3569671, member: 75799"]Ancient Persia. Cyrus the Great. Achaemenid Empire. 546-510BC. Silver siglos. 5.38g. Rare. VF.[ATTACH=full]950344[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]950345[/ATTACH]  Lion fighting a bull with 2 reverse incuse punches. Based off the Kroisos series design. Comes with silver and gold metals. Cyrus the Great was a great warrior king who founded the Achaemenid Empire, the first unified empire of the Ancient World which stretched from Central Asia, Northern India and the Eastern Mediterranean. Having no coinage of their own, when the last Lydian King Croesus was defeated and his land combined with Cyrus', the ancient coinage adopted by the Lydians became used as the currency of the Achaemenid Empire although with slight variations. Amongst them include:1) simplifying the various denominations into lesser weight variants, 2) a less defined lion & Bull motif and especially for layer issues, the paw of the lion was removed. It wasn't until the reign of Darius I (the great) from 522-486BC that the empire saw the discarding of the Croesus series into the famous warrior king Sigloi and Daric issues. Thus many previous issues were either melted or stopped circulating altogether making them rare.[/QUOTE]