443, Lot: 161. Estimate $100. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (19mm, 6.81 g, 12h). Dated CY 169(?) (AD 43/44?). Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, [PΞ]Θ (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; uncertain Phoenician letter between legs. Cf. DCA-Tyre 902 (same obv. die as illustration); cf. RPC I 4701; HGC 10, 358; DCA 922; cf. Prieur 1471. VF, toned, compact flan, heavily tooled. Part of date off the flan.

From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Jean-Pierre Righetti Collection (Part 8, Münzen & Medaillen GmbH 20, 10 October 2006), lot 881.