PHOENICIA. Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Shekel (Silver, 24 mm,

PHOENICIA. Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Shekel (Silver, 24 mm, 14.24 g, 12 h), CY 131 = AD 5/6. Laureate head of Melkart to right, lion skin tied around neck. Rev. TYPOY IEPAΣ [KAI] AΣYΛOY Eagle standing left on prow, wings closed and with palm frond behind; to left, ΡΛA above club; to right, KP above monogram of ΦΔC; between eagle's legs, 𐤀 (A in Punic). DCA Tyre 472. HGC 10, 357. RPC I 4653. Struck from a worn obverse die and with surface marks and trace deposits, otherwise, very fine.


From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins, formed since summer 1991.