Lot 4316

Description

Phoenicia, Tyre, (c.332-306 B.C.), silver fifteenth shekel (0.66 g), obv. hippocamp to left, waves below, rev. owl standing to right, carrying crook and flail under wing all within cable border, (S.5916, BMC 43 [p.233]); Carian Islands, Rhodes, (408-390's B.C.), silver hemidrachm (1.75 g), obv. head of Helios three-quarter face to right with hair loose, rev. rose, to P and to right O, all within incuse square, (S.5030, SNG Finland 366-368 [similar dies], Ashton 19); Constantius Gallus, (A.D. 351-354), AE centenionalis, Alexandria mint, (4.02 g), obv. bare headed and draped and cuirassed bust to right, around D N FL C L CONSTANTIVS NOB CAES, **D* in left field, rev. soldier advancing left spearing fallen horsenman, around FEL TEMP RE PARATIO, in exergue **ALED*, (S.4054, RIC 77). Mostly fine. (3)

Ex Greg Melick SC Collection, previously from Noble Numismatics Auction Sale 89 (lot 3900).