PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (25mm, 13.96 g, 12h). Dated CY 178 (AD 52/3). Head of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, POH (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician A between legs; TYPOY IEPAΣ [KAI] AΣYΛOY around. DCA-Tyre 664 var. (PK above monogram); Rouvier –; HGC 10, 357; DCA2 947; BMC –. In NGC encapsulation 8229026-002, graded Ch XF, Strike: 4/5, Surface: 3/5, brushed. Extremely rare, only four in CoinArchives, this variety not in DCA Tyre.
Ex Jess Peters 114 (19 January 1984), lot 55.
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