Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 124 23 Jun 2021
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Philistia, Gaza.
Quarter shekel or drachm, circa 450–400, AR 2.89 g. Head of Athena r.; on the cheek, the letter Heth. Rev. Winged feline r., with the head of the Persian Great King; in r. field a hare set perpendicularly, all within dotted frame in incuse square. Struck from the same pair of dies as the drachm published in H. Gitler and C. Lorber, A New Chronology for the Yehizkiyah coins of Judah, Swiss Numismatic Revue 87 (2008), p. 67, figure 2. H. Gitler, "Identities of the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine under Achaemenid Rule. The Dissemination of the Image of the Great King", in P.P. Iossif, A.D. Chankowski and C.C. Lorber (eds.), More than Men, Less than Gods. Proceedings of the International Colloquium Organized by the Belgian School at Athens (1-2 November 2007), Studia Hellenistica 51, Leuven-Paris-Walpole MA 2011, pp. 105–119 (forthcoming), p. 117, Figure 4.
Extremely rare, only the second specimen known. Test-cut on reverse,
otherwise about very fine / very fine
Ex NAC sale 59, 2011, 1276.
Quarter shekel or drachm, circa 450–400, AR 2.89 g. Head of Athena r.; on the cheek, the letter Heth. Rev. Winged feline r., with the head of the Persian Great King; in r. field a hare set perpendicularly, all within dotted frame in incuse square. Struck from the same pair of dies as the drachm published in H. Gitler and C. Lorber, A New Chronology for the Yehizkiyah coins of Judah, Swiss Numismatic Revue 87 (2008), p. 67, figure 2. H. Gitler, "Identities of the Indigenous Coinages of Palestine under Achaemenid Rule. The Dissemination of the Image of the Great King", in P.P. Iossif, A.D. Chankowski and C.C. Lorber (eds.), More than Men, Less than Gods. Proceedings of the International Colloquium Organized by the Belgian School at Athens (1-2 November 2007), Studia Hellenistica 51, Leuven-Paris-Walpole MA 2011, pp. 105–119 (forthcoming), p. 117, Figure 4.
Extremely rare, only the second specimen known. Test-cut on reverse,
otherwise about very fine / very fine
Ex NAC sale 59, 2011, 1276.