Very Rare Denomination

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 304. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Circa 377-357 BC. AR 1/4 Shekel (3.38 g, 6h). Deity riding hippocamp right, holding bow in extended right hand; waves below; below waves, dolphin right / Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail in background. Cf. Betlyon 18 (shekel); Rouvier 1789; SNG Copenhagen 302 and 304; BMC -. VF, die rust. Very rare denomination.

Although Betlyon mentions that there are fractions of the shekel of this type without dates or inscription, he only lists the 1/24 denomination.