TYRE SILVER HALF SHEKEL – ISSUE FROM CHRIST’S LIFETIME – VF NGC GRADED GREEK PHOENICIA BIBLICAL COIN (Inv. 21053)

$2,750.00

21053. PHOENICIA. TYRE.
Silver Half Shekel, 7.08 g, 20 mm. CHRIST LIFETIME ISSUE struck ca. Tyre Years 150–158 (AD 24–33).
Obv. Laureate head of Melkart right. Rev. Eagle on prow to left, PN? (date) and club to left, KP and monogram to right.
DCA Tyre Supplement Release 2, 868 and 877 (both struck using the same obverse die).
Ex Harlan J. Berk, acquired privately on April 7, 1989.
NGC graded VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5, labeled “Year Uncertain, AD 14–34.”
Some half shekels struck during Christ’s lifetime are difficult to identify since the dates are rendered very roughly using dashes and dots. However, the obverse dies used in this period offer indisputable proof as to when a coin was struck. Thus, in this case, even though the date is not clear, the obverse die is documented as having minted specimens during a twenty-year time frame, between years 150 (AD 24/25 = Cohen 868) and 157 (AD 32/3 = Cohen 877), the final years of Christ’s life and just prior to the Crucifixion.