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Numismatic Auction 48  12 January 2016
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Lot 34

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 2350 USD
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Phoenicia, Tyre. 126 B.C.-A.D. 65. AR shekel (22 mm, 13.81 g, 1 h). Dated CY 179 (A.D. 53/4). Laureate bust of Melkart right / [TYPIOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY], eagle standing left on prow, palm over far wing; date (POΘ) above club to left, KP and E and PH monogram to right, Phoenician "aleph" between legs. DCA Suppl. 431; RPC -. VF. Extremely rare - one of just four known. Cohen, DCA Supplement p. 230, notes that in addition to the specimen illustrated, he knows of just two other specimens, neither of which he had seen as so was unsure of the monogram.
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