Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 874. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $555. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (14.50 g, 6h). Struck AD 115. Laureate bust of Trajan right set on eagle standing right; club to left / Laureate bust of Melkart-Hercules right, lion skin tied at throat. Prieur 1520. Good VF, darkly toned, top of Trajan’s head flatly struck, otherwise sharply stuck on good quality metal.