Watch List notes:

Phoenicia, Tyre. Phoenicia, Tyre; Year P?Z (retrograde)=41/2 AD, Shekel, 13.60g. Obv: Laureate head of Melqart r. Rx: Eagle standing l. on prow, palm over its shoulder in background, club and P?Z in field before, KP and monogram behind. Marked KP on reverse and hence struck at Jerusalem rather than Tyre according to Meshorer, though this attribution is not accepted by the authors of RPC, pp. 655-6. The retrograde Z in the date of this coin is not clearly struck and other readings are possible.A few spots of porosity on cheeks. VF

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