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Millennium Half Shekel
From the Prieur Collection

443, Lot: 147. Estimate $300.
Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (20mm, 6.91 g, 12h). 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 834 (this coin illustrated); RPC I –; HGC 10, 358 (unlisted date); DCA 922; Prieur –. VF, deeply toned, struck from somewhat rusty obverse die. Extremely rare.


From the Michel Prieur Collection.