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Drachm
| Issuer | Uncertain Philistian city (Cities of Philistia) |
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| Year | 450 BC - 333 BC |
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| Currency | Drachm |
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| Reverse description | An owl of Athena depicted standing facing, with large forward-facing eyes rendered in relief and wing feathers carefully detailed. Two olive sprays flank the owl on either side, closely imitating the reverse type of the Athenian tetradrachm. The entire design is contained within a shallow circular incuse, characteristic of the hammered coinage of the Philistian cities during the Persian period. |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The coinages of Philistia remain among the least understood of the ancient Levantine series — struck by cities whose precise identities are still debated, operating under Achaemenid Persian administrative oversight while drawing heavily on Athenian and East Greek coin types for their iconographic vocabulary. Gitler and Tal's cataloguing work, published in 2006, brought the first systematic order to this material, but many civic attributions remain tentative.
XIV.28D is a rare variety within an already scarce group.