Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1049. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $460. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126 BC - 65 AD. AR Half Shekel (7.04 g, 12h). Dated CY 4[...] (68/7-78/7 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right / TUROU IE[RAS KA]I ASULOU, eagle standing left on prow, palm on right wing; to left, [?]M above club; Phoenician 'B' between legs, monogram to right. Cf. BMC 224-229. EF, area of die rust on reverse, hairline flan crack. ($500)

While the decade letter, M, is clear in the date, the second letter has been re-engraved multiple times, and is illegible.