281, Lot: 243. Estimate $100. Sold for $140. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 8.14 g, 6h). Struck AD 116. Laureate head of Trajan right; below, club and eagle standing right / Laureate head of Melqart-Hercules right, with lion skin tied around neck. McAlee 466; Prieur 1521. Fine, lightly toned, porosity, uncertain graffiti before head of Trajan, minor metal flaws on both sides. Rare.