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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Gary Waddingham, post: 2491039, member: 73648&quot;]Wreath Crown,&nbsp; You may already know but the inscription is (from right to left as with all Semitic scripts) OZBAL MLK GBL {&#039;Ozba&#039;al, King (Malik) of Gebal (Byblos)}.&nbsp; Vowels are largely left out as in Hebrew.&nbsp; The best overall book for Phoenician coins that is up to date is Oliver Hoover&#039;s &quot;Handbook of Coins of the Southern Levant&quot;(Volume 10 of the series).&nbsp; Yours is his #133 and listed as scarce.&nbsp; The best book just on Byblos is Josette and A. G. Elayi&#039;s book &quot;A Monetary and Political History of the Phoenician City of Byblos.&quot; Ba&#039;l (BAL) is the Semitic word for Lord and is almost always specific to a location such as Byblos, Tyre, or Sidon.&nbsp; It is often preceded by an article which predicates existence in the sense of &quot;Baal of Tyre exists.&quot;&nbsp; In this case it is part of the king&#039;s name in the same way &quot;el&quot; in a Hebrew name refers to God such as Ezekiel.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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