PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (25mm, 14.20 g, 12h). Lifetime of Christ issue. Dated CY 141 (AD 15/16). Head of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PMA (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician B between legs; TVPOV IEPAΣ [KAI AΣVΛ]OV around. DCA-Tyre 500; Rouvier –; HGC 10, 357; DCA2 947. Scattered light marks. VF. Rare and clear date.
Ex Triton XXII (8 January 2019), lot 355 (hammer $6500).
