433, Lot: 118. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (20.5mm, 6.58 g, 12h). Illegible date, struck early 1st century AD. Laureate bust of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond behind; to left, illegible date above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician B between legs. DCA Tyre 936 (same dies as illustration); cf. C. Meir, “Tyrian Sheqels from the ‘Isfiya Hoard, Part Five: Half Sheqels with Unclear Dates, ‘Crude Style’ Half Sheqels and Augustan Imperial Denars,” INR 9 (2014), 285 (same obv. die). VF.