Exceptional Offering of Early Coins of Sidon

CNG 97, Lot: 304. Estimate $7500. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. temp. Baalshillem (Sakton) I-Ba’ana. Circa 425-401 BC. AR Dishekel (29mm, 25.40 g, 12h). Phoenician galley 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 Group III.1.h, 218 (D12/R19 – this coin referenced and illustrated); Betlyon 15 (Ba’ana’); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 232 (Ba’ana’). Good VF, toned, some areas of roughness on obverse. Very rare.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Ars Classica XII (18 October 1926), lot 2000.

The areas of roughness were not present on the coin at the time of the Ars Classica sale, and must have occurred afterward.