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Auction: 7023 - The Glenister Collection of British Coins & other Ancient, English & Foreign Coins & Comm Medals
Lot: 95

Phoenicia, Tyre (c.360-332 BC), AR Didrachm, 7.67g, Melqarth on hippocamp right, waves below, rev. owl standing right, head facing, crook and flail under wing (Cf. BMC 231ff), test-cut, toned, good fine, together with Kingdom of Persia (c.485-450 BC), AR Siglos, 5.5g, the Great King kneeling/running right, holding spear and bow, rev. oblong incuse punch, good fine, and Babylon (late 4th cent. BC), AR Tetradrachm, 16.01g, Baal seated left, holding sceptre, rev. lion walking left, above (BMC 36-38), obv. a little off centre, almost very fine (3) Estimate £ 160-250

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£190