“Crucifixion” Half Shekel
DCA-Tyre Plate Coin

CNG 108, Lot: 367. Estimate $1000. Sold for $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (21mm, 6.86 g, 1h). Dated CY 159 (AD 33/4). Laureate bust of Melkart right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PNΘ (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician A between legs. DCA-Tyre 878 (this coin illustrated); Rouvier –; RPC I 4693; HGC 10, 358; DCA 922. VF, toned. Very rare.

From the D. C. Kopen Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 64 (24 September 2003), lot 412.

According to the traditional chronology, this coin was struck in the year of Jesus’ crucifixion.