Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 3531 Session 11 (9:30am Thursday) Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $900
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $1,050
PHOENICIA, Byblos, king `Uzzib`l (Azbaal), (365-350 B.C.), silver dishekel or seqel, (13.26 g), obv. war galley travelling to left with lion's head prow and three hoplites with round shields, hippocamp to left below, Phoenician Z above tail, rev. bull kneeling left attacked by lion on top of it, almost a full Phoenician legend above [Azbaal melek Gebal], (S.6012, cf.BMC 4, cf.Traite II, 871, Pl.117, 21-2; cf.ACNAC Dewing 2662, cf.Rouvier 641, cf.Betylon 14 [p.118], cf.Leu Num. 72, May 1998 lot 312 similar dies [realised 2530 SFr.]). Good very fine, a very rare variant.
Ex Alan Jordan Collection and purchased from Noble Numismatics Sale 68 (lot 1740).
This coin has a clear and very sharp obverse and nearly complete ethnic in Phoenician script on the reverse. This is a type with an ethnic on obverse above the hippocamp and a much rarer variant than the OZ ethnic.
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