Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (27.5mm, 14.28 g, 1h). Dated CY 23 (104/3 BC). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow, palm frond in background; to left, ΓK (date) above club; Δ(KP monogram) to right, Phoenician B between legs. DCA-Tyre 49 var. (control mark in right field); HGC 10, 358; DCA 919. Good VF, toned. Rare variety.


Ex Burgan (25 June 1993), lot 115.