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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1780359, member: 42773&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">Here’s an autonomous city issue of Tyre dating to the late 2nd century BC. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s10.postimg.org/lmxy6tjrt/tyre.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><span style="color: black"><font face="Times New Roman">Phoenicia, Tyre, AE 13, Year 3 (124/123 BC, Lindgren III 1461ff</font></span><font face="Times New Roman">. Laureate Head of Melqarth Left/Palm tree. Fine. Size: 13 mm.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I don’t know much about this coin, but I’ve managed to piece together a few pertinent pieces of the puzzle. </font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Tyre regained its independence from the Seleucid Empire in 126 BC, at which point the autonomous city coinage began its run. In 65 BC, Pompey incorporated Phoenicia as the Roman Province of Syria, but Tyre was allowed to keep its independence as a “civitas foederata”, and semi-autonomous city coinage continued to be produced until the first quarter of the 2nd century AD.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Melqarth was the tutelary deity of Tyre, and he makes his appearance on the Tyrian silver shekels right around the time the city is freed of Seleucid control. Melqarth is featured on the bronze coinage as well, but there are a number of autonomous and semi-autonomous bronze types, many of which exhibit Tyche as well.</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I don’t know if this coin is scarce, or perhaps even rare, but it’s the only example of Lindgren 1461ff that I’ve come across. As pricey as the shekels of this period are, they seem to be far more readily available than any of the bronze. This is the example on Wildwinds, which gives us a clearer picture of the reverse design…</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman">NOT MY COIN</font></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s22.postimg.org/noborv0f5/tyre2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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