Tetradrachm - Artaxerxes III / Darios III Halicarnassus

Issuer Achaemenid Empire
Year 350 BC - 333 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
Value Tetradrachm (1/5)
Currency Daric (521 BC-330 BC)
Composition Silver
Weight 15.13 g
Diameter 24.5 mm
Thickness
Shape Round (irregular)
Technique Hammered
Orientation Variable alignment ↺
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Reference(s) HN Online#638
Obverse description Persian king, wearing kidaris and kandys, in kneeling-running stance right, holding spear in right hand, bow in left.
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Reverse description Prow of galley right, with hornlike akrostolion, fighting platform decorated with labrys, proembolon (upper battering ram) decorated with dolphin and an embolom (principal three pronged battering ram); wave pattern below; to right, small dolphin diagonally downward right.
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Mintage ND (350 BC - 333 BC) - -
Numisquare ID 8915327370
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