315, Lot: 113. Estimate $150. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (21mm, 6.00 g, 12h). Dated CY 115? (12/1 BC?). Laureate bust of Melkart right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow, with palm frond over shoulder; to left, PIЄ? (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician letter (aleph?) between legs. Cf. RPC I 4687; HGC 10, 358; DCA 922. VF, minor porosity.

From Dr. Robert A. Kilmarx Collection.