139, Lot: 213. Estimate $75. Sold for $141. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 14.70 g). Dated Cos. 5 (AD 103-109). Laureate head of Trajan right; club and an eagle standing right below / DHMARC EX [UPAT E], laureate bust of Melkart-Herakles right, lion's skin tied at throat. Prieur 1495. Fine, toned, a little porous.

From the Garth R. Drewry Collection. Ex Harmer Rooke (26 August 1970), lot 914.