304, Lot: 170. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (27mm, 13.84 g, 1h). Dated CY 30 (97/6 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right, lion skin around neck / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, LΛ (date) above club; monogram to right, Phoenician B between legs. Rouvier 2013; BMC 116; HGC 10, 357; DCA 919. VF, some light roughness.

From the Demetrios Armounta Collection. Ex Ponterio 149 (24 April 2009), lot 2091.