Ancients
PHOENICIA. Tyre. Ca. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR shekel (26mm, 13.95 gm, 12h). NGC Choice XF 3/5 - 3/5. Millennium issue, dated Civic Year 126 (1 BC/AD 1). Laureate bust of Melkart right, lion skin knotted around neck / ΤΥPΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ-ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing left on prow; palm frond over far shoulder, PKς (date) above club to left; KP above M to right, Phoenician bet between legs. RPC I 4650. DCA Tyre 454. DCA 920 (R1). A popular type dated the year of the turn of the Millennium and the year of division between ante Christum natum and anno Domini nostri.
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Estimate: 1000-2000 USD