4066
Auction #19
Lot Number: 61151
Final Sale Price: $643.50
Denomination: Shekel
Grade: EF lustrous
Reference: RPC I 4654; Prieur 1411

  Phoenicia, Tyre. Year 135 (9/10 AD). AR Tetradrachm (Shekel) (14.30 gm). Laureate
  bust of Melkart / TUROU IERAS KAI ASULOU, eagle standing on prow, date, club, KP and
  monogram in fields. RPC I 4654; Prieur 1411. EF, lustrous, gouge on the eye of
  Melkart. Nice late shekel. Extremely Rare date. Estimate $600.

  This rare date Shekel is struck during the middle of the lifetime of Christ. Only one
  other example is documented in the literature; the Hunterian Museum specimen (also
  Rovier 2099). Prieur only documents one coin in his census report, presumably the
  same piece as listed in RPC.

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