PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Half Shekel (19mm, 6.68 g, 1h). Dated CY 162 (AD 36/7). Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PΞB (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician A between legs. DCA-Tyre 385 (same dies as illustration); RPC I 4695; HGC 10, 358; DCA 922. Toned. Good Fine.
From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Saul Sugar Collection (Rosenblum 25A, 23 February 1995), lot 336.