From the de Barros, Freedman, and Laffaille Collections

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 484. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. 1st century BC. Æ 21mm (8.16 g, 12h). Dated CY 34 (78/7 BC). Jugate busts of Tyche, veiled and turreted, and Zeus right / Phoenician pentekonter left; date above, ethnic in Phoenician below. Rouvier 1410; SNG Copenhagen 221; BMC 137; Laffaille, Choix de monnaies grecques en bronze (Rolle, 1982), 181 = Laffaille 588 (this coin). EF, brown and green patina with traces of red. Exceptional style.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection. Ex David Freedman Collection (Triton V, 15 January 2002), lot 561; Maurice Laffaille Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 76, 19 September 1991), lot 588.