446, Lot: 155. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (25.5mm, 13.14 g, 1h). Uncertain date. Laureate bust of Melkart right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, faint traces of date(?) above club; to right, traces of control marks; Phoenician B between legs. Cf. HGC 10, 357; cf. DCA 921. Near VF, toned, crude strike.