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Triton XIX, Lot: 299. Estimate $750.
Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (24mm, 13.96 g, 1h). Dated CY 143 (AD 17/8). Bust of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow, palm frond over right wing; to left, PMΓ (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician B between legs; TVPOV IEP[AΣ] KAI AΣV[ΛOV] around. DCA-Tyre 334; Rouvier 2101; RPC I 4656; HGC 10, 358; DCA 920; BMC –. EF, toned, underlying luster, a couple minor flan flaws.


From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (21 February 1990), lot 188.