Lot 2753

Description

Phoenicia, Tyre, uncertain ruler or king, (c.425-394 B.C.), silver shekel (13.36 g), obv. deity holding reins and bow, riding hippocamp to right, two lines of waves below, dolphin to right in exergue, rev. owl standing right, head facing, crook and flail in background, (S.5912, Elayi & Elayi "The Coinage of the Phoenician City of Tyre in the Persian Period" Group II, 1.1.1 as unlisted dies, Brindley Collection 539 [Oct.13, 2003, Baldwins Auction, This Coin], Betylon 17, [Pl.5, 3], HGC 10, 315). Lightly toned, flan cracks, very fine or better and rare.

Ex Professor James Brindley Collection, Baldwin's Auction Sale 34, 13 October, 2003, (lot 539).