Numismatica Ars Classica
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Philistia, Gaza.
Ma'eh or obol circa 450–400 BC, AR 0.61 g. Helmeted Athena r. Rev. ΑΘ on r. field. Owl r. head facing; in upper l. field olive spray and crescent. In r. field between the owl and the Greek legend, lotus bud (or lily). All within shallow incuse square. Gitler and Tal 2006, XII. Imitation. 13O.
Rare. Obverse off-centre, otherwise very fine
Ex M&M Fixed Price List 602, 1996, 95 and NAC sale 59, 2011, 1269.
E.T. Newell, Miscellanea Numismatica: Cyrene to India, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 82, New York 1938, p. 54, No. 26, Plate III, described this obol as a Palestinian imitation of an Athenian coin. Y. Meshorer (SNG ANS 6: Plate 1, 27) retained the attribution as a Palestinian issue. A. Spaer has recently proposed to reassign this coin-type to the Yehud coinage (Gaza or Yehud, Schweizer Münzblätter 198 (2000), p. 21.). In the same year Meshorer attributed a drachm of this coin-type also to the Yehud coinage (in C.W. Samuels, P. Rynearson and Y. Meshorer, The Numismatic Legacy of the Jews as Depicted by a Distinguished American Collection, New York 2000, p. 34). However, L. Mildenberg classified the same drachm as a Philisto-Arabian issue (Über die Münzbildnisse in Palästina und Nordwestarabien zur Perserzeit, in C. Uehlinger (ed.), Images as Media, Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (Ist millennium BCE), Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 175, Freiburg and Göttingen 2000, Plate 58, No. 58).
Ma'eh or obol circa 450–400 BC, AR 0.61 g. Helmeted Athena r. Rev. ΑΘ on r. field. Owl r. head facing; in upper l. field olive spray and crescent. In r. field between the owl and the Greek legend, lotus bud (or lily). All within shallow incuse square. Gitler and Tal 2006, XII. Imitation. 13O.
Rare. Obverse off-centre, otherwise very fine
Ex M&M Fixed Price List 602, 1996, 95 and NAC sale 59, 2011, 1269.
E.T. Newell, Miscellanea Numismatica: Cyrene to India, Numismatic Notes and Monographs 82, New York 1938, p. 54, No. 26, Plate III, described this obol as a Palestinian imitation of an Athenian coin. Y. Meshorer (SNG ANS 6: Plate 1, 27) retained the attribution as a Palestinian issue. A. Spaer has recently proposed to reassign this coin-type to the Yehud coinage (Gaza or Yehud, Schweizer Münzblätter 198 (2000), p. 21.). In the same year Meshorer attributed a drachm of this coin-type also to the Yehud coinage (in C.W. Samuels, P. Rynearson and Y. Meshorer, The Numismatic Legacy of the Jews as Depicted by a Distinguished American Collection, New York 2000, p. 34). However, L. Mildenberg classified the same drachm as a Philisto-Arabian issue (Über die Münzbildnisse in Palästina und Nordwestarabien zur Perserzeit, in C. Uehlinger (ed.), Images as Media, Sources for the Cultural History of the Near East and the Eastern Mediterranean (Ist millennium BCE), Orbis Biblicus et Orientalis 175, Freiburg and Göttingen 2000, Plate 58, No. 58).