Lot 2908

Description

Phoenicia, Sidon, after 111 B.C., silver tetradrachm, year 72 = 40-39 B.C., Sidon Mint, (12.73 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 L/**PA monogram, to right BO/monogram **PAR*, (cf.S.5951-2, 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. cf.BMC 106, Rouvier 1319 [p.233] = Molthein 3122). Fine /very fine, off centred on the obverse and very rare for this date in the middle of the Imperatorial period.

Ex Wayne Sayles Collection, acquired from him on 9 December 1992.