PHOENICIA. Tyre. Ca. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR shekel (25mm, 14.17 gm, 1h). NGC XF 5/5 - 4/5. Millennium issue, dated Civic Year 126 (1 BC/AD 1). Laureate bust of Melqart right, lion skin tied around neck / ΤΥPΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ-ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing left on prow, palm over right wing; KPϚ (date) above club in left field left, KP over MA monogram in right; Phoenician bet between legs. DCA Tyre 454. RPC I, 4650. A handsomely toned example of this very popular turn of the millennium dated issue. From the Historical Scholar Collection

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