Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 938. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Year 45 (82/81 BC). AR Didrachm - Half Shekel (7.12 gm). Laureate bust of Melkart right / Eagle standing left on prow; date and club to left, Ð right, letter between legs. Cf. BMC Phoenicia pg. 242, 135 (shekel of the same date). EF, light surface roughness on the reverse. ($300)