443, Lot: 157. Estimate $200. Sold for $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (23mm, 14.26 g, 12h). Dated CY 162 (AD 36/37). Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PΞB (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician B between legs. DCA-Tyre 603; RPC I 4666; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920; Prieur 1426. Good Fine, toned, die break on obverse.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex A.K. Collection (Triton XIV, 4 January 2011), lot 558, B048.