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Drachm
| Issuer | Gaza |
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| Year | 400 BC - 350 BC |
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| Composition | Silver |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing right, wearing a crested Corinthian-type helmet with cheek guards clearly delineated; the beard is rendered in fine engraved strokes. The style reflects Athenian prototypes adapted by Philisto-Arabian mint engravers of the late fifth to mid-fourth century BC. The field is plain, with no legend or additional device. |
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| Mintage | ND (400 BC - 350 BC) |
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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.