Berytos, Phoenicia, AE19 civic issue, 2nd c. BC. 5 g.

Turreted head of Tyche right, Delta behind her neck.
Phoenician script, Baal-Berit, bearded, wearing long robe 
and kalathos, holding patera and trident, standing left in a 
quadriga of hippocamps, with a small genius riding on the 
foremost animal. (L)A beneath Baal's arm, aphlaston in outer left field, oF monogram in right field.

Rouvier 458-459; SNG Cop 83; Babelon (Perses) 1181-1182.
Scarce.

With permission of Münzen & Medaillen DE GmbH auction 20, Lot 782, J.-P. Righetti Coll. sale, Part VIII. Oct 2006.