Lot 2909
Sale 138 · Important Australian, British, World, and Ancient Coins, Banknotes, and Medals
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Description
Phoenicia, Tyre, (c.440-425 B.C.), silver shekel, (21.5 mm, 13.18 g), obv. dolphin leaping to right over waves and murex shell below, SL SN (In Phoenician) above, rev. owl standing to right, head facing, crook and flail over shoulder all in outline incuse within incuse square (S.5907, E&E-T Group1.2.1 33-34 (obv 2, rev. 4), BMC 1, HGC 10. 314, Bement 1740, Kraay & Hirmer 681, Weber 8082, Betylon 2). Very fine or better very rare.
Ex CNG eSale 342, January 14, 2015 (Lot 353), from the RH Collection. A better example realised $10,000 US in January 2019, Triton XXII (lot 346).
- Estimate
- $3,000
- Result Status
- Sold
- Prices Realised
- $3,000