Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (20mm, 7.07 g, 1h). Dated CY 184 (AD 58/9). Head of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PΠΔ (date) above club; to right, KP above E(PH monogram); Phoenician B between legs; TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY around. DCA-Tyre 919 (same dies as illustration); Rouvier –; RPC I 4705; HGC 10, 358; DCA 922; BMC –; Prieur 1475 (this coin). Good VF, lightly toned. Well centered on a broad flan for issue.


From the Michel Prieur Collection. Ex Superior (11 June 1986), lot 1423.