★ Apparently unpublished ★

PHOENICIA. Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Shekel (Silver, 24 mm, 13.99 g, 12 h), CY 128 = AD 2/3. Laureate head of Melkart to right, lion skin tied around neck. Rev. TYPO[Y IEPAΣ K]AI AΣYΛOY Eagle standing left on prow, wings closed and with palm frond behind; to left, ΡKH above club; to right, KP above monogram of AB. DCA Tyre 460 var. (𐤀 between eagle's legs). HGC 10, 357 var. (unlisted date). RPC I 4650B var. (control between eagle's legs). An apparently unpublished variety without a Punic control letter between the eagle's legs. Minor deposits, otherwise, fine.

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