Sale: CNG 81, Lot: 599. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 20 May 2009.  Sold For $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (7.11 g, 1h). Dated CY 47 (80/79 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond behind; to left, ZM (date) above club; monogram to right, Phoenician A between legs. Rouvier -; SNG Copenhagen -; BMC 226 var. (control marks). Good VF.

Ex Dix, Noonan, Webb 73 (14 March 2007), lot 281; Pegasi X (5 May 2004), lot 198.

Struck from the same obverse die as the following lot.