Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 'Ozmilk (Azemilkos). Circa 349-311/0 BC. AR Shekel (22.5mm, 8.28 g, 11h). Dated RY 16 (334/3 BC). 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; a and 16 (date, in Phoenician in two lines) to right. E&E-T Group II.2.1.27, 1516 (O100/R168); Betlyon 37 and n. 112 var. (date unlisted); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 349; DCA 918; G. Hirsch 170, lot 698 (same dies); Triton II, lot 1370. Near EF, toned. Well struck. Very rare date for series.


From the RH Collection.