TYRE SILVER SHEKEL – RARE CHRIST LIFETIME YEAR 157 VARIETY STRUCK IN YEAR AD 31/2 – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK PHOENICIA COIN (Inv. 19297)

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19297. PHOENICIA. TYRE.
Silver Shekel, 14.27 g, 22 mm. Issue dated Tyre year 157 (AD 31/2), struck DURING THE LIFETIME OF CHRIST.
Obv. Laureate head of Melkart right. Rev. ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing left on prow, PNZ (date) above club in left field, KP above control monogram in right field, uncertain Phoenician letter between legs.
DCA Tyre Supplement Release 2, 565 (same obverse die).
Ex Stack’s Bowers, 10/22/ 2019, lot 71029.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 3/5, Surface 4/5, rare date with only six specimens appearing in market records; the date of the coin is about one to two years before the traditional date of Christ’s Crucifixion.