Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1051. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126 BC - 65 AD. AR Half Shekel (6.95 g, 1h). Dated CY 50 (77/6 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right / TUROU IERAS KAI ASULOU, eagle standing left on prow, palm on right wing; to left, LN above club; Phoenician 'B' between legs, D to right. Cf. BMC 142 (shekel with A not D). EF, area of minor roughness on reverse, hairline flan crack. ($500)