452, Lot: 436. Estimate $150. Sold for $90. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Sidon. temp. Ba`alšillem (Sakton) I-Ba’ana. Circa 425-401 BC. AR Sixteenth Shekel (9.5mm, 0.88 g, 12h). Phoenician galley left before city wall with three towers; [in exergue, lion recumbent left] / King of Persia standing right, drawing bow, quiver over shoulder; behind, incuse head of satyr left; before, incuse head of goat right; all within incuse square. E&E-S Group III.3.a; HGC 10, 230. Toned, some porosity, off center on obverse. VF.

From the Matthew Curtis Collection.