Watch List notes:

PHOENICIA. Tyre. AR shekel. 14.25 gm. 28 mm. ΔΛ 93/2 B.C. Laureate bust of Melqarth right / Eagle standing left with right foot on prow of ship and palm branch over right shoulder; ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ around. Club and date ΔΛ in field left, Δ in field right. Cf BMC Phoenicia 241:126 (exact date not listed). HGC 10, 357. Good Very Fine; lightly toned, with iridiscent luster traces; good style, well centered. Pleasing example of this historic issue.Shekels of Tyre were accepted as payment for the temple tax in Jerusalem, and are generally thought to have made up the "thirty pieces of silver" that Judas received for betraying Jesus.