452, Lot: 427. Estimate $200. Sold for $200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Arados. Uncertain king. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Shekel (15.5mm, 10.00 g, 10h). 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. Toned, some roughness, countermark on obverse (Aramaic BZ within incuse circle). Near VF.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection.