RPC III, 3889

Province Syria
City Tyre 
Region Phoenicia
Reign Trajan
Obverse inscription
Obverse design Turreted, veiled and draped bust of Tyche, right; to left, palm-branch, to right, murex-shell
Reverse inscription ΤΥΡ ΙΕΡ ΑΣ ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΩΣ, ΗΛΣ (above)
Reverse design galley, left; below, Phoenician letters לצר (‘of Tyre)

Coin no. 19 of RPC III, 3889

 

Reference From a hoard near the Sea of Galilee (U. Leibner and G. Bijovsky, ‘Two hoards from Khirbat Wadi Hamam and the scope of the Bar Kokhba Revolt’, INR 8 (2013), pp. 109–31, at p. 129 no. 433).
Diameter
Weight 5.28
Axis
Note
Find URI https://chre.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/hoard/5386
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