CNG 93, Lot: 549. Estimate $200. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Persian or Macedonian Period. Hezekiah. Circa 350-332 or 332-302/1 BCE. AR Half Gerah or Hemiobol (7mm, 0.28 g). Youthful male head (off flan and/or deteriorated) / Forepart of winged and horned lynx left. Gitler & Lorber I pp. 77–8; cf. Meshorer 24–5; cf. Hendin 1065–6; cf. HGC 10, 451–2. VF, rough find patina.

It was common for obverse dies in this series to have been used after they were completely deteriorated (see J.-P. Fontanille, “Extreme Deterioration and Damage on Yehud Coin Dies,” INR 3 [2008], pp. 45–50).