Lot 4315

Description

Phoenicia, Sidon, after 111 B.C., silver tetradrachm, year 41 = 71-70 B.C., Sidon Mint, (13.98 g), obv. Veiled, turreted and draped bust of Tyche to right, dotted border, rev. Eagle standing left on prow, with palm under wing, around **SIDWNOS THS IEPAS KAI ASULOU* in field to left LAM and to right monogram **PAR*, (cf.S.5951, Levy, B.E., "The autonomous silver of Sidon [107/106 BC - AD 43/44]", [Proceedings of the 12th International Numismatic Congress, Berlin 2000] does not list this date. Cohen DCA does not record this date, cf.BMC 105, HGC 10, 276 [unlisted date]). Toned good very fine, slightly off centred on the reverse and unpublished for this date, probably unique.

Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 93 (lot 4979).