Dishekel - Addirmilk

Addirmilk ruled Byblos during one of the most turbulent stretches of Achaemenid administration in Phoenicia, a period when Persian satraps were actively suppressing the broader Phoenician revolt that would eventually consume Sidon under Tennes in 345 BC. Byblos itself avoided the worst of that reckoning, likely through calculated loyalty. The city retained its minting privileges throughout, making its royal coinage a continuous thread where Sidon's was violently interrupted.

The dishekel denomination — essentially a double shekel on the Phoenician weight standard — was never a coin of casual commerce. These circulated among merchants and officials operating at a scale where silver was counted by weight as much as by piece.