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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 6770849, member: 97383&quot;]7Calbrey, Confusing the portrait on your coin with Caracalla is quite natural <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. The roughness on your coin resembles a beard, but I don&#039;t recall the engravers at Tyre ever producing a portrait of Melkart with a beard. Many portraits of Caracalla from the Tyre Mint have a strong resemblance to Melkart, &amp; this appears to be intentional as the coin below illustrates. I bought this coin about 12 years ago, sold it at a Heritage auction, &amp; later it sold at a Roma auction in London. If you remove the beard &amp; mustache from Caracalla, you have a portrait of Melkart, &amp; to strengthen the image the club of Melkart appears in the right field.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1271783[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Phoenicia-Tyre, Caracalla, AD 198-217 (struck 215-217), AR Tetradrachm: 27 mm, 14.09 gm, 6 h. Prieur 1543.</b>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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