Fritz Rudolf Künker GmbH & Co. KG
Auction 334 17 Mar 2020
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Judaea under the Persian Empire (550-330 BCE). Macedonian Period, 333-302 BCE.
AR-Hemiobol, Jerusalem?; 0,21 g. Head of a lion to r., degraded to the shape of an egg or pellet// YHWDH (Yehudah = Judaea) around a dove standing to r., head turned back. Hendin no. 1075c; Meshorer, Treasury 200 no. 27.
Fine/good fine.
Overbeck – Meshorer no. 8.
The species of the bird depicted is under discussion (dove, eagle, duck?), cf. Hendin 119 f., who tended to identify the bird as a duck and to link it to duck-shaped scale weights used by Babylonians and Egyptians. If the bird is a dove, this could be a pointer that the coin was minted not in Jerusalem but in a city with significant cults of Herakles (lion) and Aphrodite (dove).
AR-Hemiobol, Jerusalem?; 0,21 g. Head of a lion to r., degraded to the shape of an egg or pellet// YHWDH (Yehudah = Judaea) around a dove standing to r., head turned back. Hendin no. 1075c; Meshorer, Treasury 200 no. 27.
Fine/good fine.
Overbeck – Meshorer no. 8.
The species of the bird depicted is under discussion (dove, eagle, duck?), cf. Hendin 119 f., who tended to identify the bird as a duck and to link it to duck-shaped scale weights used by Babylonians and Egyptians. If the bird is a dove, this could be a pointer that the coin was minted not in Jerusalem but in a city with significant cults of Herakles (lion) and Aphrodite (dove).