CNG 90, Lot: 717. Estimate $500. Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA, Achaemenid Province (Yehud). Anonymous. Circa 375-332 BCE. AR Half Gerah (6mm, 0.24 g, 3h). Bearded head right, wearing crown (Persian Great King?) / Falcon facing, head left, with wings spread; [retrograde Phoenician YHD (facing outward) to right]. Mildenberg, Yehud 12-3 var. (legend facing inward); Meshorer 16c (same dies as illustration); Hendin 1059a; Bromberg 2 var. (same); HGC 10, 445. Good VF, obverse slightly off center, a couple tiny die breaks.