PHOENICIA. TYROS. ==References====External links== ==References== 14.26 g. Melqartkopf r. with laurel wreath//ttsptst ΙΕΡΑθ ΚΑΙ ΑθΑΑοι / ςι Eagle stands l. with palm branch, foot on prora, in front of the club, r. Monogram, down Bet. Cohen, Dated Coins of Antiquity (Tyre Suppl.)2 919; Cohen, Dated Coins of Antiquity2 948; Hoover 357. R Fine tint, wink. Scratches, otherwise excellent Exemplary of the auction Hess-Divo 320, Zurich 2011, No. 251. The tyrical shekels are mentioned several times in the Bible: Thus the temple tax was half a tyrish shekel (Exodus 30:12); Jesus instructed Peter to pay the temple tax with a stater (that is, a heavy tyrical shekel like ours), which he was to find in the mouth of a fish (Matthew 17:24); the overthrow of the tables of money changers in the temple (Mathaeus 21:12; Marcus 11,15) was certainly also motivated by the representation of the Tyrian god Herakles-Melqart on these coins. The thirty pieces of Judah's silver were certainly tyrical shekels.