Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA. Byblos. Circa 2nd century BC to 2nd century AD. Weight of 1 Mina (Lead, 90x90 mm, 456.00 g). M-NA / MΔ Two crossed cornucopiae with crown of Isis between. Rev. Blank. Gorny & Mosch 169 (2008), 463 = Pondera 11094 var. (lacking the shekel value and with a latticework design on the reverse). Some casting faults, otherwise, very fine.


The inscription on the obverse of this piece marks it as a weight of 1 mina of 44 shekels, which corresponds to a light shekel of 10.36 g. For comparison, Pondera 11094 is considerably heavier at 640 g or 14.54 g per shekel.