Watch List notes:

Phoenicia, Tyre AR Half Shekel. Uncertain date, struck early 1st century. Laureate bust of Melkart to right / [ΤΥPΟΥ] ΙΕΡΑΣ [ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ], eagle standing to left on prow, [palm] behind; [uncertain letters] (date) above club to left; KP above [uncertain monogram] to right, [Phoenician letter](?) between legs. Cf. DCA 922; cf. HGC 10, 358; cf. Roma 97, lot 420 (hammer: £420). 6.29g, 18mm, 12h.

Near Very Fine; cleaning marks visible.

From a private English collection.