★ Lightly toned and of fine style ★

PHOENICIA. Tyre. 126/5 BC-AD 65/6. Shekel (Silver, 24 mm, 14.22 g, 12 h), CY 146 = AD 20/1. Laureate head of Melkart to right, lion skin tied around neck. Rev. TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY Eagle standing left on prow, wings closed and with palm frond behind; to left, PMς above club; to right, KP above monogram; between the eagle's legs, 𐤀 (A in Punic). DCA Tyre 509. HGC 10, 357. RPC I 4659. Lightly toned and of fine style. Struck from worn dies and with some scratches, otherwise, very fine.

From the James Knox Collection of Biblical related coins, ex Stack's Bowers November 2012 Baltimore Auction, 15 November 2012, 11686 and from the Harry Alderman Collection, Gemini VIII, 14 April 2011, 106.