PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (26mm, 14.14 g, 12h). Lifetime of Christ issue. Dated CY 146 (AD 20/1). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PMς (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician A between legs; TVPOV IEPAΣ [K]AI AΣVΛOV around. DCA-Tyre 525 var. (letter between legs); Rouvier –; RPC I 4659; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920; BMC 201. Toned, light deposits. Good VF.
From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Triton XVI (8 Jan 2013), lot 565.