342, Lot: 357. Estimate $500. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (25.5mm, 13.74 g, 1h). Dated CY 107 (20/19 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right; [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow, palm over right wing; to left, PZ (date) above club; monogram to right, A (in Phoenician) between legs. DCA-Tyre 257; Rouvier 2078 var. (monogram and letter); BMC 183 var. (monogram); HGC 10, 357; DCA 919. VF, toned, a few scratches and area of roughness on obverse.

From the collection of a Southern Pathologist. Ex Coin Galleries (19 November 1971), lot 152.