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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Geographic - All Periods| > |Phoenicia| > GS110252
Arados, Phoenicia, c. 350 - 339 B.C.
|Phoenicia|, |Arados,| |Phoenicia,| |c.| |350| |-| |339| |B.C.|, This obverse is apparently unpublished as a diobol. The usual type is a full figure of Ba'al with a fish-like lower body ending in a forked tail, dolphin held by tail in each hand.
GS110252. Silver diobol, apparently unpublished denomination, cf. Betlyon 13; HGC 10 46; BMC Phoenicia p. 7, 45 (all obols), aEF, toned, tight flan, Arados (Arwad, Syria) mint, weight 1.355g, maximum diameter 10.0mm, die axis 0o, c. 350 - 339 B.C.; obverse laureate bearded head of Ba'al Arwad right, with profile eye; reverse galley right, three lines of waves below, Phoenician letters mem aleph above (from right to left, abbreviating Melech Arad - King of Arados); no other specimens of this Arados diobol type known to FORVM; extremely rare; SOLD











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