Merry Greetings.. I really thought that this tiny coin marks the last days of my coin-year 2016. I got it by surprise.. Weighing only 0.62 g., it's presumably a Phoenician silver coin which was struck in Sidon-Phoenicia during the revolt against the Persian ruler Artaxerxes III in the late first half of the fourth century BC. Other sources assume that it's a merely Persian coin showing a Persian king slaughtering a " rebelling" lion. This typical coin, I believe, has a clear Phoenician letter on reverse. Please post your views if you have any. Thank you.
They come with various letters and with centering showing the ship below. Many I have seen are rather like yours but not as nice on the reverse.
Cool lil' OP-coin, 7Charles ... oh, and your example too, Mentor Sadly, I tried for one of these but got CLIO'd at the last auction (*sigh*)
