Greek Silver & Bronze
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Lot 4684 Session 15 (7.30pm Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $950
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $880
PHOENICIA, Byblos, king `Uzzib`l (Azbaal), (365-350 B.C.), silver dishekel or seqel, (13.260 grams), obv. war galley travelling to left with lion's head prow and three hoplites with round shields, hippocamp to left below, Phoenician OZ above tail, rev. bull kneeling left attacked by lion on top of it, full Phoenician legend above [Azbaal melek Gebal], (S.6012; BMC 4; Traite II, 871, Pl.117, 21-2; ACNAC Dewing 2662; Rouvier 641; cf.Betylon 14 [p.118]; Leu Num. 72, May 1998 lot 312 same dies [realised 2530 SFr.]). Off centred on the obverse, nearly extremely fine/ extremely fine, rare.
This coin has a clear and very sharp ethnic in Phoenician script on the reverse.
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