PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (29mm, 13.38 g, 12h). Dated CY 68 (59/8 BC).

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PHOENICIA, Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel (29mm, 13.38 g, 12h). Dated CY 68 (59/8 BC). Head of Melkart right, wearing laurel wreath, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, HΞ (date) above club; monogram to right, Phoenician B between legs. DCA-Tyre 234 (same dies as illustration); HGC 10, 357; DCA2 946. Toned, minor deposits, light roughness. Good VF.