1/2 Ma'ah-Obol - Hezekiah

Yehud Medinata — Judah as a Persian administrative province — produced its own small silver coinage in the fourth century BC, one of the few subject territories the Achaemenid empire permitted to mint. The authorization likely came as a practical concession to local temple economics rather than any grant of political autonomy; the Jerusalem priesthood needed fractional silver for dues and transactions the Persian imperial coinage was too large to facilitate cleanly.

The Hezekiah issues are named for a high priest attested in both coin legend and Josephus, placing this piece at the very end of Achaemenid rule in the Levant — the series terminates with Alexander's conquest of Gaza in 332 BC.