ID Halp. Maybe this Poseidon?

[mursik]

Dear Sirs, I bought yesterday a coin and can not identify it.
Help please. I thought it was Iberia, but I have not found such.
There seems to be depicted stylized (symbolic) chariot of four horses with a rider.From the side of the neck depicts Zeus trident. Maybe this Poseidon - god of the sea? Thank you in advance for your help.

PS. Weight approximately 9 grams, 20/22 mm.

[benito]

Definitely  Poseidon . Look for hippocamps  ,not horses.
Imo not Spain but Italy or Greece.

[mursik]

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=631842

Rx: Baal of Berytos, holding aphlaston in extended right hand, trident in left, in quadriga of hippocamps right;

[Arados]

Hi Mursik,

Yes, definitely a Phoenician Berytos (Berytus) and can be found in George F. Hill Greek coins of Phoenicia, page 54.

Phoenicia, Berytos  1st century B.C

Obverse: Head of Poseidon (Baal-Berit) right, bearded, laureate, with trident behind neck, border of dots.

Reverse: Poseidon (Baal-Berit) left, in car drawn by four Hippocamps, his left hand holds tail of nearest, his right hand guides the team, above and across field, date and inscription, border of dots.

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sg/sg6022.html

Nice find. 

All the best
Arados

[mursik]

thank  you.  Rare?

[Arados]

thank  you.  Rare?

I would say yes, the only other coin i Could Find is in the British museum, it's omission from HGC10 strikes me has being odd. Could be something to do with rarity or just an oversite.

[mursik]

THANK you! So I have 3 copies of the famous? One was on the Ebay auction, the other in the British Museum. Perhaps there is anywhere in the collections or not found yet in the land of another instance. I bought my copy yesterday from the sale of a 100 year old coin collection. This coin seems to have found and taken to the collection after 1914 ..

[mursik]

 Hi Arados, thanks for identifying.