Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Uncertain king. Circa 425-394 BC. AR Shekel (23.5mm, 13.65 g, 2h). Melkart, holding bow in extended left hand and reins in right, riding hippocamp right; below, waves above dolphin right / Owl standing right, head facing; crook and flail diagonally in background. E&E-T Group II.1.1.1.a, 288 (O26/R22 – this coin); Betlyon 17; Rouvier 1788; HGC 10, 315 (this coin illustrated); BMC 19-22. Toned, edge splits, some porosity and graffito (Phoenician "aleph") on reverse. Good VF. Exceptional for issue.

Ex CNG Inventory 951894 (June 2013); Spink Numismatic Circular CXII.2 (April 2004), no. GK 1230; Classical Numismatic Group 63 (21 May 2003), lot 675.