PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (28mm, 14.11 g, 1h). Dated CY 50 (77/6 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, LN (date) above club; Δ to right, Phoenician B between legs; TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY around. DCA-Tyre 177; Rouvier –; HGC 10, 358; DCA 919. Lightly toned, minor die wear, traces of horn silver and area of minor porosity on obverse. Near EF.
From the Peter J. Merani Collection, purchased from Sam Kazmi, January 2002.