Phoenicia, Tyre AR Shekel. Uncertain king, circa 357-349 BC. Dated RY 2 (356/5? BC). Deity, holding reins and bow, riding hippocamp right above two lines of waves; below, dolphin right / Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail in background; M (in Aramaic) and date in Phoenician to upper right, [' in Aramaic] to lower right. E&E-T Group II.2.1.3, 835 var.; HGC 10, 341; DCA 915. 8.75g, 20mm, 11h.
Good Fine.
From the 1960s Andragoras-Sophytes Group, present in Germany in 1975, subsequently exported to the USA.