Triton XVIII, Lot: 207. Estimate $7500. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king. Circa 425-394 BC. AR Shekel (24mm, 13.73 g, 1h). Melkart, holding bow in extended left hand and reins in right, riding hippocamp right; below, waves above dolphin right / Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail diagonally in background. E&E-T Group II.1.1.1.a, 259 var. (O9/R– [unlisted rev. die]); Betlyon 18; Rouvier 1788; HGC 10, 315; Sunrise 133 (this coin). Good VF, toned, granular surfaces, softly struck on obverse, a couple tiny die breaks in field on reverse.

From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from Atlantis Ltd. (David Herman), 1998.