CNG 90, Lot: 706. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. Abdashtart (Straton) I. Circa 365-356 BC. AR Half Shekel (18mm, 5.94 g, 11h). Dated RY 8 (358/7 BC). Phoenician pentekonter left; date above, waves below / Persian king and driver in chariot left, drawn by goat; Phoenician ‘B above. E&E-S 1376 (D2’/R2 – this coin, illustrated); Betlyon 24; Rouvier 1108; HGC 10, 243; DCA 851. Good VF, toned, slight roughness. Extremely rare denomination, only 9 examples noted by E&E-S.

Ex Peus 332 (23 October 1991), lot 287; Ariadne Galleries (9 December 1983), lot 160; Numismatic Fine Arts 10 (17 September 1981), lot 232.