Royaume d’Achéménide, Perse, Sardes. Time of Darios I to Xerxes I (ca. 485 BC). Siglos / Carradice Type IIIa (Sans Prix de Réserve)
Nº 81769711
Royaume d’Achéménide, Perse, Sardes. Time of Darios I to Darios II (490-420 BC). Siglos / Carradice Type III
Nº 81769711
Royaume d’Achéménide, Perse, Sardes. Time of Darios I to Darios II (490-420 BC). Siglos / Carradice Type III
Persia, Achaemenid Empire. Sardes – Time of Darios I to Darios II (490-420 BC) – AR Siglos.
Obv:
Persian king in kneeling-running stance right, holding transverse spear downward in right, bow in left, bearded, crowned.
Rev:
Incuse rectangular punch.
Reference: Carradice Type III
Weight: 5.10 g
Diameter: 16.5 mm
Metal: Silver
Siglos was the Greek transliteration of the Semitic denomination „shekel” which became a standard weight unit for silver in the Achaemenid Persian Empire after the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus the Great in 539 B.C. Ironically, silver sigloi seem to have been struck primarily in the western part of the empire and the standard went on to influence several Greek civic and royal coinages in the fifth and fourth centuries B.C.
Provenience: ex private collection.
See the pictures for more details and correct impression
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