Details
LOT 3269
Phoenicia, Tyre AR Shekel. Dated CY 4 (123/2 BC).
Bust of Melkart to right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / ΤΥPΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing to left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, L Δ (date) above club; monogram of ZB and Phoenician B between legs. DCA-Tyre 10; Rouvier 1957; DCA 919; BMC 51; Hunt II 606; HGC 10, 357. Good Very Fine. Toned.(13.91gr, 27mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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