Triton XVIII, Lot: 733. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (27mm, 14.36 g, 1h). Dated CY 21 (106/5 BC). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, AK (date) above club; monogram to right, Phoenician B between legs; TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY around. Rouvier 1998; HGC 10, 357; DCA 919; BMC 99–100; Kampmann 6 = AdG p. 45 (this coin). Near EF, toned. Featured in the podcast “Tyros, 106 BC” on the MoneyMuseum website (click here for the English version, here for the German version).

From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 47 (16 September 1998), lot 606.