Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Lot 4409 Session 16 (9.30am Friday 25 November) Terry Naughton Collec Greek Silver & Bronze Coins
Estimate $800
Bid at live.noble.com.au
SOLD $650
PHOENICIA, Tyre, (c.2nd century B.C. - 1st century A.D.), silver half shekel or didrachm, (6.85 g), Tyre mint, year 25 of era = 102-1 B.C., obv. laureate head of Melqarth beardless to right, rev. eagle to left with closed wings, carrying palm, standing on prow of ship, club to left, to left EK ( = 25 = 102-1 B.C.], to right monogram **HLR*, Phoenician letter between legs, around **[TUROU IERAS] KAI ASULOU*, (S.5921, cf.BMC 218, H.918, Cohen notes the date but not reported in the literature). Bright, short on flan, otherwise very fine and an unpublished date.
Ex Noble Numismatics Private Sale October 28, 2009.
The Shekels and half shekels of Tyre are of special interest to this series of Ancient Jewish and Biblical coins as Jews had to pay an annual sum to the Jerusalem Temple of one half shekel [This Coin type] and the only acceptable money were the half shekels of Tyre. They were widely available in Jerusalem and well known for their true weight and good silver. It is also believed that the "thirty pieces of silver" paid to Judas was made in Tyre as shekels. (See Hendin pages 288-293).
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