CNG 97, Lot: 319. Estimate $500. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (24mm, 14.20 g, 1h). Illegible date, struck early 1st century AD. Laureate bust of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, illegible date above club; to right, KP above illegible monogram; uncertain Phoenician letter between legs. Cf. C. Meir, “Tyrian Sheqels from the ‘Isfiya Hoard, Part Three: ‘Crude Style’” in INR 7 (2012), pp. 25–30, 182 (same obv. die). VF, lightly toned.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.