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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Biblical Coins| > |The Temple Tax Coin| > SH15316
Tyre, Phoenicia, 91 - 90 B.C., The Temple Tax Coin
|The| |Temple| |Tax| |Coin|, |Tyre,| |Phoenicia,| |91| |-| |90| |B.C.,| |The| |Temple| |Tax| |Coin|,
SH15316. Silver half shekel, BMC Phoenicia p. 242, 129 var. (beth between legs); Cohen DCA 919; HGC 10 358; Baramki AUB -, gVF, Phoenicia, Tyre (Lebanon) mint, weight 7.082g, maximum diameter 24.1mm, die axis 0o, 90 - 89 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Melqart right, lion's skin knotted around neck; reverse TYPOY IEPAΣ KAI AΣYΛOY (of Tyre the holy and inviolable), eagle standing left, head left, wings closed, right talon on war galley ram, palm frond transverse right behind, date ZΛ (year 37) over club & palm left, Δ (control) right, Phoenician letter samekh between legs; SOLD










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