Ancients
PHOENICIA. Tyre. Trajan (AD 98-117). AR tetradrachm (27mm, 14.08 gm, 6h). NGC Choice AU 4/5 - 4/5, light marks. Consular Year V and Tribunician Year XV (AD 111). AYTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIANOC CEB ΓERM ΔAK, laureate head of Trajan right; eagle standing right with wings folded below, club left under bust / ΔHMAPX•-•-EΞ IE (date)•YΠAT•E•, laureate bust of Hercules/Melqart right, wearing lion skin around neck with paws tied. Prieur 1515.
From the Historical Scholar Collection. Ex Edward J. Waddell, private sale with old dealer's tag
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