Details
LOT 3017
Phoenicia, Tyre AE Shekel or Fourrée Shekel Core. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Uncertain date.
Laureate head of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; [to left, date above club]; [to right, KP above monogram]; [Phoenician letter between legs]. Cf. DCA Tyre 952-4; cf. D. Hendin, "Bronze shekel of Jerusalem recently discovered" in The Celator 6.10 (October 1992), p. 36; cf. HGC 10, 357 (for type). Near Very Fine.(13.34gr, 24mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
Footnotes
E. Cohen, in DCA, lists these bronzes as fourrée cores. In his article in The Celator, though, D. Hendin notes that the surfaces of the bronze coin he observed had no indication that it was a fourrée core, and he contends that it is an official strike in bronze.
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