Catalog
See full images - free registration
Continue with Google - no registration!
or register with email
Why register? Just to keep bots out of our catalog. Your email stays private - we will never share it or send you anything uninvited. We guarantee you that!
Drachm
| Issuer | Uncertain Philistian city |
|---|---|
| Year | 450 BC - 333 BC |
| Type | Log in to see details |
| Value | Log in to see details |
| Currency | Log in to see details |
| Composition | Log in to see details |
| Weight | Log in to see details |
| Diameter | Log in to see details |
| Thickness | Log in to see details |
| Shape | Log in to see details |
| Technique | Log in to see details |
| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
| Engraver(s) | Log in to see details |
| In circulation to | Log in to see details |
| Reference(s) | Log in to see details |
| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, rendered in fine archaic Greek style with distinctly oriental character, the hair dressed in closely cropped wavy locks arranged in rows across the crown and nape. The facial features are finely modelled with a prominent aquiline nose, strong jaw, and slightly parted lips suggestive of an idealized ruler or deity portrait. The bust is set within a guilloche-pattern border encircling the field. The style reflects the Philistian coinage tradition of blending Athenian artistic influence with Near Eastern iconographic conventions. |
|---|---|
| Obverse script | Log in to see details |
| Obverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Reverse description | Log in to see details |
| Reverse script | Log in to see details |
| Reverse lettering | Log in to see details |
| Edge | Plain |
| Mint | Log in to see details |
| Mintage | Log in to see details |
| Additional information |
Philistian coinage of the fifth and fourth centuries BC occupies one of the more contested corners of ancient numismatics — struck by cities along the southern Levantine coast during the Persian period, these pieces drew simultaneously from Athenian, Egyptian, and Phoenician visual vocabularies, producing a hybrid coinage with no direct parallel. The issuing city for this type remains unresolved; Gitler and Tal's exhaustive 2006 corpus brought systematic die-linkage analysis to bear on the problem without producing consensus attributions for every group.
The series ends abruptly with Alexander's campaigns of 333–332 BC and the destruction of Gaza.