PHOENICIA, Roman Province, Trajan, (A.D. 98-117), silver tetradrachm, Tyre mint, (14.47 g), issued 113, obv. Trajan laureate head right, **[AUT]OKR KAI* C NEP TPAIAN O CCEB **GERM [DAK]*, legend around, rev. **DHMARC EX IZ UPAT* S, eagle standing facing on club, wings spread, head to left, palm in right field, (cf.S.1077, Prieur 1506). Nearly very fine, off centred obverse, scarce.
Ex W.J.Lawson Collection.
The reverse legend indicates the seventeenth year of tribunician power and six times consul and this corresponds to A.D. 113. Wruck assigned the mint of issue to Antioch ad Orontem, but Prieur places it correctly to Tyre.