Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 464. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $4100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Time of Baalshallim I. Circa 425-402 BC. AR Double Shekel (27.36 g, 11h). Galley left before city wall with five towers; two lions in exergue / King of Persia and driver in chariot drawn by two galloping horses left; below, incuse goat running left; all within dotted circle within incuse circle. Elayi & Elayi 195 (D2/R2); Betlyon 7; SNG Copenhagen 191. Good VF, minor porosity. Very rare.