347, Lot: 274. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. temp. Ba`alšillem (Sakton) I-Ba’ana. Circa 425-401 BC. AR Half Shekel (19mm, 6.79 g, 1h). Phoenician galley left before city wall with four towers; two lions standing outward in exergue; no legend / Persian king or hero, holding dagger in right hand, standing right, fighting lion standing left on its hind legs; no legend; all within incuse square. E&E-S Group III.2.n; HGC 10, –. VF, toned, area of flat strike, doubling on obverse.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist, purchased from Antioch Associates, September 1996.