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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Terence Cheesman, post: 3622344, member: 86498&quot;]Most of the shekels of Tyre do command a premium not because they are scarce but because of their &quot;Biblical&quot; association. There are a lot of fakes around I saw one in Edmonton over 40 years ago. I think these &quot;coins&quot; where a part of some promotion but I do not know what that promotion was. It may have had something to do with the large number of sword and sandal films made about that time. I have one Tyrian Shekel. It is Plated in Dated Coins of Antiquity Shekels of Tyre by E Cohen It is 2.13 No 34 which is dated 114/113 B.C. It has the letter Alef between the legs of the eagle on the reverse. Until I brought this coin to the authors attention it was unpublished 14.29 grms 27 mm[ATTACH=full]971201[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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