Watch List notes:

Shekel of Tyre. Shekel; Shekel of Tyre; Year 159=33/4 CE, Shekel, 13.96g. RPC-4663. Obv: Laureate head of Melqart r. Rx: TYPOY IEPAS - [??? ASY?O?] Eagle with r. foot on [prow] and palm branch over shoulder, in l. field club and date [P]NT = 159 = 33/4 CE, in r. field KP and NAP monogram. Struck in the year of the Crucifixion.For an issue this common, we rarely, if ever, make the statement that the coin is the finest known. But this coin is so utterly flawless, and so uncirculated, that there can be nothing finer. The small flan reflects the fact that Herod had contracted with Tyre to mint smaller coins of the same weight. Each half-shekel represented the tax paid by Jewish for the upkeep of the temple. MS