200, Lot: 193. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Time of Baalshallim I-Ba’ana. Circa 425-402 BC. AR Half Shekel (18mm, 7.05 g, 12h). War galley to left before city wall with four towers; two lions back to back in exergue / King of Persia slaying lion standing before him; all within incuse square. Elayi & Elayi 317 (D20/R24); Betlyon 8; SNG Copenhagen 192. Good VF, toned, shallow test cut on reverse.

From the Norman Frank Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 51 (15 September 1999), lot 575.