Look at this beauty , soon I will tell where it is from 
Keeping the excitement.
What a powerful lion.
The reverse type is really intriguing Sam!! Thanks for sharing.
I hope some of you guys experts of phoenician coinage can tell us something more about it.
The first thing I can think of... the contest scenes seen on ancient mesopotamian cylinder seals.
The second thing I think of... I wonder the extent to which those ancient near-eastern images had influenced not only the types like this you posted, but even those seen more west, like Herakles vs Nemean lion
Nico
Hello my dear friends Nico and Arados,
my cover is blown
From FORVM ; *With my sincere thank and appreciation , Photo and Description courtesy of
FORVM Ancient Coins Staff.
Persian Empire,
Sidon,
Phoenicia, Ba'Alshillem II, c. 401 - 366 B.C.
Silver 1/16
shekel,
Elayi 2004 851 ff.; Hoover 10 240;
Betlyon 27 (Abd'astart, Straton I);
BMC Phoenicia p 146, 36 (same);
SNG Cop 197 ff. (same),
gVF, well struck on a
crowded flan,
toned, 0.843g, 9.5mm, 0o,
Phoenicia,
Sidon mint, c. 371 - 370 B.C.;
obverse war galley left, Phoenician letter beth above;
reverse King of
Persia (to left) standing right, slaying erect
lion to right, Phoenician letter ayin between them.
Sidon, named for the "first-born" of Canaan, the grandson of Noah (Genesis 10:15, 19), is frequently referred to by the prophets (Isaiah 23:2, 4, 12; Jeremiah 25:22; 27:3; 47:4; Ezekiel 27:8; 28:21, 22; 32:30; Joel 3:4). The Sidonians long oppressed
Israel (Judges 10:12) but Solomon entered into a matrimonial
alliance with them, and thus their form of idolatrous worship found a place in the land of
Israel (1 Kings 11:1, 33). Jesus visited the "coasts" of Tyre and
Sidon (Matthew 15:21; Mark 7:24) where many came to hear him preach (Mark 3:8; Luke 6:17). After leaving
Caesarea, Paul's ship put in at
Sidon, before finally sailing for
Rome (Acts 27:3, 4).
