452, Lot: 426. Estimate $300. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Uncertain king. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Shekel (18.5mm, 10.45 g, 3h). Laureate head of Ba’al-Arwad right, with frontal eye / Galley right above waves; M A (in Aramaic) above; [all in dotted square within shallow incuse square]. E&E-A Group III.1.1; HGC 10, 28. Deeply toned, minor flan flaws, softly struck on reverse. VF.

From the Baldwin Maull Collection, purchased 1950s-early 1960s.