331, Lot: 86. Estimate $100. Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. 393-360 BC. AR Sixteenth Shekel (8mm, 0.60 g, 5h). Dated CY 1 (393/2 BC). Hippocamp left; [two waves below] / Owl standing left, head facing; crook and flail over shoulder, | (date) to left. E&E-T 722; HGC 10, –; DCA 911. VF, toned, rough surfaces.
The first year that a city used Phoenician numbers for the date.