376, Lot: 254. Estimate $200. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (19mm, 6.63 g, 12h). Dated CY 100 (27/6 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, Ρ (date) above club; to right, uncertain monogram; [Phoenician B between legs]. DCA-Tyre 508-9; RPC I 4683 var. (without L before date and monogram to right); HGC 10, 358; DCA 921 var. (same). VF, toned, a few scratches and marks, some porosity. Crudely engraved reverse die.