Triton XIX, Lot: 298. Estimate $500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (29mm, 14.20 g, 11h). Dated CY 47 (80/79 BC). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, ZM (date) above club; Δ to right, Phoenician B between legs; TVPOV IEPA[Σ] KAI AΣVΛOV around. DCA-Tyre 115 (same obv. die as illustration); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 358; DCA 919; BMC . Near EF, dark toning, traces of find patina, minor double strike. Struck on a broad flan.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.