½ Shekel Coin
Item
- Title
- ½ Shekel Coin
- Description
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Obv: Galley in front of fortress with five projecting towers, and two lions in exergue.
Rev: King slaying lion on hind legs. - Date Issued
- 400 -385 BCE
- Format
- Weight: 6.72 g
- Medium
- Silver
- Creator
- Sidon (modern Saida, Lebanon)
- Publisher
- The British Museum, London
- Identifier
-
1948,1202.2
- Provenance
-
Excavated by Hormuzd Rassam
Excavated/Findspot: South Babylon (modern Iraq)
- Contributor
- Jennifer Bloemeke
