Title

Double Shekel Coin

Description

Obv: Melqart riding a hippocampus while holding the reins in his right hand and a drawn bow in his left. There are double wavy lines and dolphins swimming to the right.
Rev: Owl standing to the right with a hook and flail in the background.

Date Issued

425-394 BCE

Format

Weight: 13.46 g.
Diameter: 25 mm.

Medium

Silver

Creator

Tyle (Modern Sur, Lebanon)

Publisher

Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Identifier

18256962

Source

https://ikmk.smb.museum/object?id=18256962

Provenance

Previously owned by Charles Richard Fox- 1873

Contributor

Sonia Escobedo