Description
Phoenicia, Tyre, AR Shekel, dated CY 41 (76/75 BC), 14.30g. Laureate head of Melkart facing right. Rev. ΤΥPΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ, eagle standing left on prow, palm frond behind; AN over club to left, Δ to right. (HGC 10, 357). Nearly Extremely Fine.
This type of coin is believed to be one of the Biblical ‘Thirty Pieces of Silver’ offered to Judas.