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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7362359, member: 110350&quot;]This is just under the wire for still being from the first century AD:</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan AR Tetradrachm, 100 AD, Phoenicia, Tyre. Obv. Laureate head of Trajan right; behind, ear of grain in left field; to right, club in right field; below, eagle with folded wings standing right, ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝΕΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΟϹ ϹΕΒ ΓΕΡΜ / Rev. Laureate bust of Melqart (as Herakles) right, lion’s skin tied at neck, ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ΕΞ ΥΠΑΤ Γ [= COS III]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. basil (2015); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3526" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3526" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/3/3526</a>; Prieur 1482 [Prieur, Michel and Karin, <i>Syro-Phoenician Tetradrachms</i> (London, 2000)]; McAlee 452 [McAlee, Richard, <i>The Coins of Roman Antioch</i> (2007)]. 27 mm., 14.25 g.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1283199[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next, more Melqart.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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