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Drachm
| Issuer | Uncertain Philistian city |
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| Year | 450 BC - 333 BC |
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| Weight | 3.58 g |
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| Reverse lettering | ס |
| Edge | Plain |
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Philistian coinage of this period was produced by coastal cities — most likely Gaza, Ashkelon, or a neighboring center — operating under Achaemenid Persian administrative authority while drawing heavily on Athenian coin types for their designs. The exact issuing city for this group remains unresolved; Gitler and Tal's classification acknowledges the ambiguity rather than forcing attribution. These were commercial instruments for a region deeply integrated into Mediterranean and Levantine trade networks, not civic prestige pieces.
The XXVI series in Gitler and Tal represents some of the rarest and least-understood emissions in the Philistian corpus.