1086298 | GREEK. PHOENICIA. Tyre. Circa 126/5 BC - c.65/6 AD. AR Shekel. NGC XF✭ (Extremely Fine ✭) Strike 5/5 Surface 4/5. 13.10gm. Laureate head of Melqart (Melkart) right / KAI AΣYΛOY TYPOY IEPAΣ. Eagle standing left on prow, palm on far wing; date (PN?) above club; KP above monogram and Phoenician "A" between legs. DCA-Tyre 577; Rouvier 2101 variant (monogram, letter between legs); RPC I 4663; HGC 10, 357; DCA 920.

Year of the Crucifixion, dated CY 159 (33/4 AD). The small flan reflects the fact that Herod had contracted with Tyre to mint smaller coins of the same weight. Given the star designation by NGC for exceptional eye appeal.


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Popular "Shekel of Tyre" type thought to comprise the 30 pieces of silver: "Then one of the 12, called Judas Iscariot, went unto the chief priests, and said unto then, 'What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you?' And they convenanted with him for 30 pieces of silver" (Matthew 26:14-15).