PHOENICIA. TYRE.
Silver Shekel, 13.70 g., 23 mm, minted in Year 172 (AD 46/47)
Obv. Laureate head of Melkart right, within dotted border.
Rev. Eagle on prow to left, POB (date) and club to left, KP above ΠA monogram to right 
NGC graded Mint State Star * Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5; rare variety and historically important as it is a dated coin struck only about 15 years after the crucifixion of Christ and just after the great famine in Syria cited in Acts 11.27-28 
The obverse depicts the likeness of the Phoenician god Melkart. An eagle is perched on the prow of a ship on the reverse. The Jerusalem minted Shekel continued to include the Mint mark of Tyre, a club near the eagle's foot, because Herod did not want to give the appearance that Tyre had lost power and that the Jews were sovereign in Jerusalem.
The Shekel of Tyre was the main silver coin used in Judea during the time of the Temple and the New Testament. The coin used for the yearly one-half shekel donation to the Temple, and the infamous "30 pieces of silver" for which Judas betrayed Jesus, are both references to the Silver Shekels of Tyre.