PHOENICIA. Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Shekel (Silver, 25 mm, 14.28 g, 1 h), CY 171 = AD 45/6. Laureate head of Melkart to right, lion skin tied around neck. Rev. T[YPOY IEPAΣ] KAI AΣYΛOY Eagle standing left on prow, palm frond in background; to left, ΡΟΑ above club; to right, KP above monogram; between the eagle's legs, 𐤁 (B in Punic). DCA Tyre 406. HGC 10, 357. RPC I 4671. Minor deposits and with a banker's mark on the reverse, otherwise, very fine.

From an old Swiss collection, formed in the 1970s.