Details
LOT 3144
Phoenicia, Tyre AR Half Shekel. Dated CY 146 (AD 20/21).
Laureate bust of Herakles-Melqart to right, with lion skin draped around shoulders / TYPOY [IEPAΣ KAI AΣY]ΛOY], eagle standing to left on prow, palm frond behind; PMς (date) above club to left; KP above monogram to right. DCA Tyre 538; DCA 922; HGC 10, 358. Good Fine.(5.40gr, 20mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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