Phoenicia

Phoenicia, Tyre Shekel circa 420-400, AR 19mm., 12.22g. Dolphin leaping r. over waves; below, murex shell. Rev. Owl of Egyptian type r., crowned with crescent, carrying crook and flail, all in shaped incuse. BMC pl. XXVIII, 9. SNG Cop. 295. J. Elayi, Les sicles de Tyr au dauphin, Numismatica e Antichità Classiche in Quaderni Ticinesi XXI (1992), 39, 25 (this obv. Die)and 31 (this re. die).

Rare. About very fine.