- ID: 48

Submitter: Jean-Luc

Added: 1997-08-10

PHOENICIA. Byblos.
King Azbaal.

Tetradrachm, about 340 B.C.
Av.: Galley with horse´s head as figure-head, manned by three armed men, beneath hippocamp.
Rv.: Lion devouring a bull.
13,83 g.

Ref.: cf. Traité II, pl. 117, 21-22. Bulletin on Counterfeits 9/1, 1984, p.6f.

FAKE – A group of dangerous counterfeits, copied from specimens of a hoard discovered 1983.
The weights on record are good average, i.e. between 13,8 and 14 g