Sale: Triton V, Lot: 1517. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 January 2002.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Year 174 (48/49 AD). AR Tetradrachm -- Shekel (14.17 gm). Laureate bust of Melkart right / TYPOY IEPA[S KAI ASUL]OU, eagle standing left on prow, palm on right wing; POÐ and club to left, Phoenician "B" between legs, KP and monogram to right. BMC Phoenicia pg. 249, 209 var. (different monogram); RPC I 4673. Near EF. Lot also includes a second Tyre Shekel. Year 175 (49/50 AD). BMC Phoenicia pg. 249, 210; RPC 4674. Toned, good VF. Two (2) coins in lot. ($750)

From the Robert Schonwalter Collection.