1 BC / AD 1

Triton XXII, Lot: 351. Estimate $750. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (25mm, 14.17 g, 1h). Dated CY 126 (1 BC/AD 1). Head of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PKς (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician A between legs; TVPOV IEPAΣ KAI AΣVΛOV around. DCA-Tyre 453; Rouvier 2093 var. (Phoenician letter); RPC I 4650; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920; BMC –. In NGC encapsulation, 4282169-011, graded Ch XF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 4/5. Struck during the lifetime of Christ.