Drachm

Gaza's fourth-century drachms were struck under Achaemenid provincial authority, when the city functioned as a critical administrative and commercial hub connecting Egypt to the Levantine interior. The coinage draws heavily on Athenian weight standards and iconographic conventions — a deliberate choice that facilitated trade with Greek merchants operating throughout the eastern Mediterranean without requiring them to recalculate exchange values.

Gitler and Tal's classification work on Philisto-Arabian coinage has significantly refined attribution for these issues, previously lumped under broad "Philistian" categories. The 25Da subtype designation reflects specific die linkage work published in their 2006 corpus.