A friend has asked me to help ID a number of coins he acquired some years ago. Most I have cracked, but a few are giving me a headache - can you help? This one had a label saying Persian circa 400BC - can we do better? Silver and measures about 15mm at the longest, weighs 5.6g.
That is a very low grade and heavily countermarked example of a Persian Siglos. There was a recent thread with a number of examples shown. The obverse depicts the king, usually holding a spear or a bow, and the reverse is an incuse punch. https://www.cointalk.com/threads/king-xerxes-siglos.363580/
