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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Jay GT4, post: 3976087, member: 88526&quot;]Technically it&#039;s a shekel from Tyre but yours is not a temple tax coin.&nbsp; Shekels have Melquart on the obverse with a similar reverse.&nbsp; However the legend would be ΤΥΡΟΥ ΙΕΡΑΣ ΚΑΙ ΑΣΥΛΟΥ (of Tyre the holy and inviolable).&nbsp; Yours has BAΣIΛEΩΣ (King) but I can&#039;t make out which one (would be on the left side,&nbsp; off flan) but probably&nbsp; Demetrios.</p><p><br /></p><p>It would be more accurate to call it a tetradrachm minted in Tyre.</p><p><br /></p><p>Similar to this one, but different control and year Marks</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6509099" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6509099" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6509099</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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