Triton XXII, Lot: 366. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (24mm, 13.88 g, 1h). Dated CY 165 (AD 39/40). Head of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PΞE (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician B between legs; TVPOV IEPAΣ [KAI AΣVΛOV] around. DCA-Tyre 613 (same obv. die as illustration); Rouvier –; RPC I 4669; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920; BMC –. In NGC encapsulation, 4282171-011, graded Ch XF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5.