Watch List notes:

PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Gaza ('Azah). Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.45 g, 9h). Bearded head right / Facing head of Bes; az (in Phoenician) flanking; all in dotted circle within incuse circle. Gitler & Tal VI.13D; Fischer-Bossert, Notes 31o (this coin); Mildenberg, Gaza, pl. XXV, 36; HGC 10, 551; Sofaer –. Good VF, toned, typical minor roughness, obverse a little off center. Very rare, one of only eighteen examples noted by Fischer-Bossert.


From the collection of the MoneyMuseum, Zurich. Ex Leu 75 (25 October 1999), lot 1311.