Triton XVIII, Lot: 208. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king. Circa 425-394 BC. AR Quarter Shekel (13mm, 2.89 g, 9h). 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.1.1.2, 413 (O4/R9); Betlyon –; Rouvier 1789; HGC 10, 324; Sunrise 134 (this coin). VF, darkly toned, slight roughness. Very rare.

From the Sunrise Collection, purchased from David Hendin, 2005 (his stock ticket included with lot).