PHOENICIA, Tyre. Year 171 (45-46 CE). AR Tetradrachm - Shekel (14.22 gm). Laureate head of Melkart right / Eagle standing left on prow; POA and club to left, Phoenician letter between legs, KP above monogram to right. RPC I 4702;
cf. BMC Phoenicia pg. 249, 207 (46-47 CE). Toned, good VF, reverse flip-over double-strike over brockage. $695.
Ex Frank Sternberg Auktion XIII (17-18 November 1983), lot 268.
This type, with the letters KP on the reverse, is sometimes attributed to Jerusalem, but see "Tyrian Shekels: the myth of the Jerusalem Mint" by Brooks Levy in SAN - Journal of the Society for Ancient Numismatics (Vol.XIX, No.2, 1995), pp.33-35, for further explanation of this attribution and its problems.
