WHC 77

Inventory number: WHC 77
Period: Persian
Category: Phoenician Coins
Mint: Sidon
Date: Shortly after 450 BC
Denomination: 1/16 Shekel
Material: AR
Diameter: 8 mm
Weight: 0.71 g
Axis: 4 h
Reference: Elayi and Elayi 2004, Groupe I.3, pp. 35-36, nos 3-17
Acquisition: CNG XVIII, 729 (From the collection of a Southern Pathiologist; ex Classical Numismatic Review XIX.3, 3rd quarter, 1994, no 130)
Date of acquisition: 2015-01-07

Phoenician galley, with open triangular sail, left.

Merlon; border of dots; in incuse square