17-18 AD. Phoenicia, Tyre, dated local year 143. Obv: laureate bust of Melqart right, with lionskin knotted around neck. Rev: TYPOY IEPA[?] - KAI A?Y?O[Y] legend with eagle standing left on prow with closed wings, palm branch behind shoulder; Phoenician letter between eagle's legs; PM? and club in left field; KP and ??? monogram in right. Cohen Shekels of Tyre, 334; Rouvier 2101; RPC I 4656; Prieur 1416.13.96 grams. ("). Property of a North London gentleman. This coin, for use in the main temple of Jerusalem for taxes, was struck when Christ was a young man of 20 or 22. Marked KP on reverse and hence struck at Jerusalem for temple tax rather than Tyre.