Gaza sat at the junction of the coastal trade route connecting Egypt to the Levant, and its fourth-century civic coinage was minted under Achaemenid oversight while the city functioned as a key Persian administrative and military base in the region. The local authorities issued silver fractions in weights conforming broadly to the Attic standard, reflecting Gaza's deep commercial ties with the Aegean world rather than Persian weight systems.
Gitler and Tal's classification of this type within their 2Db grouping places it among the earlier Gaza issues, before the series became more stylistically independent in the decades approaching Alexander's siege of the city in 332 BC.
Gaza sat at the junction of the coastal trade route connecting Egypt to the Levant, and its fourth-century civic coinage was minted under Achaemenid oversight while the city functioned as a key Persian administrative and military base in the region. The local authorities issued silver fractions in weights conforming broadly to the Attic standard, reflecting Gaza's deep commercial ties with the Aegean world rather than Persian weight systems.
Gitler and Tal's classification of this type within their 2Db grouping places it among the earlier Gaza issues, before the series became more stylistically independent in the decades approaching Alexander's siege of the city in 332 BC.