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Drachm
| Issuer | Gaza |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Technique | Hammered |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing right, rendered in archaic style influenced by Greek coinage, wearing a diadem with long locks of hair arranged in elaborate ringlets falling about the neck and shoulders. The facial features are boldly modelled with a prominent brow and full beard, characteristic of the Philisto-Arabian coinage series. The flan is irregular and the relief is high, consistent with hammered silver production of the period. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 350 BC) |
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Gaza's fourth-century drachms were struck during the city's role as a Persian administrative and commercial hub on the coastal road between Egypt and the Levant — a position that made it one of the wealthiest entrepôts in the region. The satrapal authorities permitted local coinage to facilitate trade, resulting in a series of small silver issues that draw heavily on Athenian and Phoenician prototypes, reflecting exactly who Gaza's merchants were dealing with.
Gitler and Tal's classification of this specific die pairing places it among the more precisely documented Gaza issues — their 2006 corpus remains the definitive reference for Philistian coinage of this period.