Triton XVIII, Lot: 210. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. ‘Ozmilk (Azemilkos). Circa 349-311/0 BC. AR Shekel (19mm, 8.50 g, 12h). Reduced (‘Attic’) standard. Dated RY 13 (340/39 BC). 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; ‘ and 13 (in Phoenician) to right. E&E-T Group II.2.1.24, 1267 (O69/R106) = Sunrise 136 (this coin); Betlyon 37 and n. 112, h var. (position of date); Rouvier 1814 var. (same); HGC 10, 349 (this coin illustrated); DCA 918. EF, even light gray tone with golden hues. Outstanding strike on excellent metal.

From the Sunrise Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 305; Dix, Noonan, Webb 75 (27 September 2007), lot 2261; Superior (18 October 1972), lot 253; Superior (14 October 1971), lot 435.