Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (28mm, 14.14 g, 12h). Dated CY 4 (123/2 BC). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, LΔ (date) above club; MY monogram and Phoenician B between legs; TYPOY IEPAΣ [KAI A]ΣYΛOY around. DCA-Tyre 8 (same obv. die as illustration); Rouvier 1957; HGC 10, 357; DCA 919. Attractively toned, minor double strike on reverse. EF.


Ex Galeries des Monnaies (9 June 1978), lot 1486.