407, Lot: 220. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (25mm, 14.13 g, 1h). Dated CY 143 (AD 17/8). Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, PMΓ (date) above club; to right, KP above monogram; Phoenician B between legs. DCA-Tyre 505; RPC I 4656; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920. VF, darkly toned, trace deposits, struck with worn obverse die.

From the B. H. Webb Collection. Ex George Prager Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 36, 5 Dec 1995), lot 2152.