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  [Image]                              Item Sold At Auction #19
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                  Lot Number: 61151
                  Estimate: $600.00
                  Final Sale Price: $643.50
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                  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. This popular coin is favored historically as the most
  likely coin to constitute the "30 pieces of silver" by which Judas was paid for his
  infamous betrayal of Christ.


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