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Triton XXIV  19-20 Jan 2021
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Lot 779

Estimate: 1000 USD
Price realized: 1500 USD
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PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (23mm, 14.03 g, 1h). Dated CY 172 (AD 46/7). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, POB (date) above club; to right, KP above E and monogram; Phoenician B between legs; [TVPOV IEPAΣ] KAI AΣ[VΛOV] around. DCA-Tyre 645 (same dies as illustration); Rouvier –; RPC I 4672; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920. Lightly toned, typical compact flan. EF. Well struck for this late period.

From the William H. Birkinshaw Collection. Ex Patrick H. C. Tan Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 90, 23 May 2012), lot 710.
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