Triton XVI, Lot: 560. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. temp. Baalshillem (Sakton) I-Ba’ana. Circa 425-401 BC. AR Dishekel (27mm, 26.03 g, 12h). Phoenician pentekonter left before city wall with five towers; two lions standing outward in exergue / King of Persia and driver in chariot drawn by two horses galloping left; B (in Phoenician) above; below, incuse goat running left; all within dotted circle within incuse circle. E&E-S 218 (D12/R19); Betlyon 15 (Ba’ana’); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 232 (Ba’ana’). VF, toned, some areas of roughness. Very rare.

From a Continental Collection, purchased from D. Miller at Stanley Gibbons in 1973.