Millennium Shekel
From the Prieur Collection

443, Lot: 146. Estimate $300. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (24mm, 13.44 g, 1h). Dated CY 126 (1 BC/AD 1). Laureate head of Melkart right, [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 B between legs. DCA-Tyre 454; RPC I 4650; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920; Prieur 1404 (this coin illustrated). VF, some roughness, flan crack. Clear, rare date.

From the Michel Prieur Collection.