PHOENICIA. Tyre. AR shekel. 14.33 gm. 23.5 mm. Dated CY 162 (36/7 B.C.). Laureate bust of Melqarth right / Eagle standing left with right foot on prow of ship and palm branch over right shoulder; TΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ [ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ] around. Club and date ΡΞΒ in field left, ΚΡ in field right, X- below. BMC Phoenicia 249:206. Good Very Fine; bright.Ex CNG 321:226 sold for $625.Though frequently attributed to a Jerusalem mint, Hendin (2010; p. 479ff) discusses the uncertainty about where these late issues were minted. (Shekels of Tyre were accepted as payment for the temple tax at Jerusalem, and are generally thought to have made up the "thirty pieces of silver" that Judas received for betraying Jesus.)