Drachm

Features

Issuer	Uncertain Philistian city (Cities of Philistia)
Type	Standard circulation coins
Years	450 BC - 333 BC
Value	1 Drachm
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Silver
Weight	3.65 g
Diameter	13.5 mm
Shape	Round (irregular)
Technique	Hammered, Incuse
Orientation	Variable alignment ↺
Demonetized	Yes
Number	N# 432473
References	Gitler&Tal# XIII.5D Haim Gitler, Oren Tal; 2006. The coinage of Philistia of the fifth and fourth centuries BC / Volume 6: a study of the earliest coins of Palestine. Edizioni Ennerre, Amphora Books, B & H Kreindler, Milan, New York, United States. , HGC 10# 597 Oliver D. Hoover; 2010. Handbook of Coins of the Southern Levant / Volume 10: Phoenicia, Southern Koile Syria (Including Judaea), and Arabia. Classical Numismatic Group, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States / London, United Kingdom.

Obverse

Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl.

Reverse

Hybrid janiform head, the left facing gorgoneion and perpendicularly oriented, the right a bearded head in profile right; all in dotted square within incuse square.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (450 BC - 333 BC)

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