Sale: CNG 64, Lot: 410. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 24 September 2003.  Sold For $1150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126 BC - 65 AD. AR Tetradrachm / Shekel (14.24 gm). Dated year 159 (33/4 AD). Laureate bust of Melkart right / Eagle standing left on prow, palm on right wing; date above club to left, Phoenician "A" between legs, KP above monogram right. BMC Phoenicia, pg. 249, 204 var. (monogram); RPC I 4663. Toned, nice VF. ($1500)

According to the traditional chronology, this coin was struck in the year of Jesus' crucifixion.