ANCIENT COINS. GREEK COINS. Phoenicia, Tyre (75/74 B.C.), Silver Shekel, 14.39g, 12h. Head of Melqart facing right, wearing a laurel-wreath. Rev. [KAI AΣV]ΛOV TVPOV IEPA[Σ], eagle standing facing left on a prow, a palm-branch across its shoulder, Γ (retrograde) below a palm on left, BN on right (BMC 174 var).Dark patina, extremely fine and of unusual striking style.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 59, Zürich, 4 April 2011, lot 1693
Estimate: US$ 1,400