Is This A Genuine Shekel of Tyre

I have a customer offering me a few ancients and I want to run a couple of the better types past you guys. Thanks in advance for your valuable imput.

 

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Certainly looks like a seam on the edge. I am no expert though.

 

Style and weight are correct

 

..if it isn't..it's a very reasonable facimile thereof.....(but i'm c'n seems it seems...)

 

My guess is Year 114, minted 13/12 BC, Ρ|∆, letter Bet between legs. As I said before, style an weight are correct. It appears genuine but the pictures are not very good.

 

Syrian tetradrachmas do come in at about 14 grams, especially those with the head of a Syrian monarch on them, including those minted in Tyre but those with say a Demetrius II on them were not considered to be the same shekel as the 30 pieces of silver coins. Those, with a similar looking Melcart were minted at a higher weight so if the question is,is this a Tyrian shekel of the thirty pieces, I don't think so, but a common Syrian tetradrachma it may be. Style and weight for that would be good.

 

What higher weight do you believe Tyrian shekels should be?

 

Sorry. For some reason I had thought that they were minted on the Attic standard and would weigh closer to 16-17 grams. Fourteen grams is the correct weight for these coins.

 

no apology needed, it’s easy to mix up weight standards now and then