PHOENICIA. Tyre. 125/4 BC. Silver half shekel (7.06 g). Laureate head of Melqarth r., wearing lionskin knotted around neck. Eagle standing left, foot on prow; palm branch over right shoulder, date LB above club in left field, FP monogram(?) in right field, Phoenician letter before left claw. BMC Phoenicia 45 var (shekel). Re-used by permission of Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com) and Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com) Gemini III, January 9th, 2007, lot 244