PHOENICIA, Arados. Uncertain king. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Shekel (20.5mm, 10.26 g, 5h). EF.

CNG Feature Auction 133
Lot: 387. Estimated: $ 750

Greek, Coin-in-Hand Video, Silver

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PHOENICIA, Arados. Uncertain king. Circa 420-400 BC. AR Shekel (20.5mm, 10.26 g, 5h). Laureate head of Ba’al-Arwad right, with frontal eye / Galley right above waves; M A (in Aramaic) above. E&E-A Group III.1.1, C13; HGC 10, 29. Lightly toned. EF. Struck with fresh dies.

Arados, located on a small island off the northern coast of Phoenicia, was one of the most important centers of commerce in the region, and controlled a number of smaller towns located in its vicinity. Although much is known of the city in the Hellenistic and later periods, its origin and history during the Persian period is relatively obscure. Strabo noted that it was founded by colonists from Sidon in the 8th century, but other literary and archaeological evidence place the founding much earlier. Nevertheless, by the 5th or early 4th century Arados was under the hegemony of the Persian Empire. Evidence of the city's coinage in this period is quite obscure, and our understanding of it is primarily based upon comparisons with the more firmly researched coinages of Sidon, Biblos, and Tyre (see Betlyon, pp. 77-8).

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