TYRE SILVER TETRADRACHM – EXTREMELY RARE CHRIST LIFETIME ISSUE OF TYRE YEAR 152 (AD 26/27) – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED GREEK PHOENICIA COIN (Inv. 19998)

$2,575.00

19998. PHOENICIA. TYRE.
Silver Shekel, 14.34 g, 25 mm. Issue of Tyre year 152? (AD 26/7), struck during the LIFETIME OF CHRIST.
Obv. Laureate head of Melkart right. Rev. ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing left on prow, PNB? (date) above club in left field, KP above monogram in right field, unclear Phoenician letter between legs.
DCA Tyre Supplement Release 2, 545—546 (same obverse as 545).
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “scuff,” extremely rare date variety, with only four other specimens on record (three in DCA Tyre Supplement and one other on CoinArchives). The obverse die on this specimen is very close in its degree of wear to DCA Tyre 545 cited above, assuring that the attribution to this year is correct.