348, Lot: 367. Estimate $200. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (30mm, 10.36 g, 1h). Dated CY 145 (AD 19/20). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow, palm frond over right wing; to left, PME (date) above club; to right, KP above P above monogram; Phoenician A between legs. DCA Tyre 339 var. (control marks in right field); RPC I 4658; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920. VF, toned, some porosity, a few deposits. Rare.