Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 644. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JUDAEA. Persian period. Hezekiah. 375-333 BCE. AR Hemiobol (0.21 gm, 9h). Male head left / "YHZQYH", forepart of winged and horned mythical lion (lynx) left. Meshorer 24; Mildenberg, Yehud pl. 21, 19; Hendin 433. VF, toned, good strike. ($500)

There are two varieties of coins of Hezekiah, one giving his title of Satrap. It is likely this is the same Hezekiah who as High Priest of the Jews offered friendship to Ptolemy I of Egypt after his conquest of Palestine. Josephus mentions Hezekiah as being sixty years old at the time of Ptolemy, so it is possible that he served as both a Persian satrap and, later, as a subordinate to Ptolemy.