Greek Silver & Bronze
Lot 5057 Session 16 (9.30am Friday) Greek Silver & Bronze
Estimate $750
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $640
PHOENICIA, Byblos, king `Uzzib`l (Azbaal), (365-350 B.C.), silver dishekel or seqel, (13.186 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.]). Slightly off centred on the reverse, nearly extremely fine/ extremely fine, rare.
Ex Noble Numismatics Sale 60 (lot 1960). This coin has a clear and very sharp ethnic in Phoenician script on the reverse.
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