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Auction 334  17 Mar 2020
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Estimate: 150 EUR
Price realized: 170 EUR
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Judaea under the Persian Empire (550-330 BCE). Persian Period, 539-333 BCE.
AR-Hemiobol, Jerusalem?; 0,31 g. Bearded head of the Persian king crowned with a kidaris (jagged crown) to r.//Falcon or eagle with spread wings, in the r. field YHDH (Judaea). Hendin no. 1059; Meshorer, Treasury 198 no. 16.

Rare. Fine/nearly very fine



Overbeck – Meshorer no. 2.



The eagle (or falcon) was the Achaemenids' heraldic bird. According to a mythic tradition the dynasty's founder was nurtured by an eagle; cf. W. Fauth, Gyges und die 'Falken', Hermes 96, 1968, 257-264, esp. 259; R. Schmitt, Der Adler im Alten Iran, Die Sprache 16, 1970, 63-77; D. Metzler, Der Adler als achämenidisches Herrschaftszeichen, in: Vom Euphrat bis zum Bosporus. Kleinasien in der Antike. Festschrift für E. Schwertheim zum 65. Geburtstag, Bonn 2008, 461-470.
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