PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (28mm, 14.42 g, 1h). Dated CY 40 (87/6 BC). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, LM (date) above club; Δ to right, Phoenician B between legs; TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY around. DCA-Tyre 144; Rouvier –; HGC 10, 357; DCA 919; BMC –. Lightly toned. EF.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Patrick H. C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 97, 17 September 2014), lot 312; Classical Numismatic Group 75 (23 May 2007), lot 488.