CNG 102, Lot: 630. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (31mm, 14.31 g, 12h). Dated CY 35 (92/1 BC). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow, palm frond in background; to left, ΕΛ (date) above club; Δ to right, Phoenician A between legs. DCA-Tyre 84 var. (letter between legs); HGC 10, 358; DCA 919; Triton XV, lot 1289. EF, toned. Well centered on a broad flan.

From the Allan Smith, M.D. Collection, purchased from Pars Coins, April 2011 (inv. no. G3280).