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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;iamtiberius, post: 3357107, member: 37707&quot;]Your Coin: <b>PHOENICIA, Tyre. </b>126/5 BC-AD 65/6. AR Shekel. Dated year 29 (98/7 BC). Laureate bust of Melkart right, [lion skin around neck] / Eagle standing left on prow; palm frond in background; to left, ΘK (date) above club; monogram to right; Phoenician A between legs. DCA-Tyre 73; Rouvier 2011; HGC 10, 357; DCA 919.</p><p><br /></p><p>Below is your coin side by side with CNG&#039;s example that was auctioned in 2017 (Sold for $1770 w/ buyer&#039;s premium)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]889248[/ATTACH]</p><p>Yours is a reverse die match with CNG&#039;s example.</p><p>- Note the faint horizontal line that runs to the left and just at head level with the eagle. This is a good sign and shows that both of your coins shared the same die scratch/imperfection.</p><p>-Note at the tip of the bottom 2 tail feathers how the metal is pushed up to the edge of the flan. Another good sign showing the metal naturally flowing to the point of least resistance when being struck. The CNG example was struck when the die was younger; ergo, yours was later.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889250[/ATTACH]</p><p>The obverses are not die matches; which is probably the best sign. It would be very uncommon for forgers to mix and match dies; though it has occurred before.</p><p>- Note that the flans are of different shapes and struck differently. A good sign.</p><p>- The CNG example weighs 14.40 grams. I would recommend weighing yours to look for a little disparity between the 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]889247[/ATTACH]</p><p>CNG Shekel, E-Auction 394, Lot 297</p><p>14.4 grams</p><p><br /></p><p>Source: <a href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=332361" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=332361" rel="nofollow">https://cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=332361</a></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Prognosis: I lean, heavily, toward genuine. </b></p><p>Nice coin. I don&#039;t have one yet. The Alpha/Lambda over a tipped epsilon seems to be a rarer monogram than the traditionally oriented [ATTACH=full]889260[/ATTACH] monogram, more commonly found on year 29 shekels. (Yours and the CNG example are the only examples I could find with the vertically oriented monogram.)</p><p><br /></p><p>- Michael[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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