Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 558. Estimate $400.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126 BC - 65 AD. AR Didrachm / Half-Shekel (6.93 gm, 12h). Dated CY 51 (76/5 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right / TUROU IERAS KAI ASULOU, eagle standing left on prow, palm on right wing; to left, AN above club; Phoenician "B" between legs, D to right. BMC Phoenicia pg. 251, 230 var. (A right); RPC I -; AUB -. EF, some light porosity on the obverse. ($400)