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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Philistian city |
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| Year | 450 BC - 333 BC |
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| Reference(s) | Gitler/Tal#IX.10 |
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| Reverse description | Owl standing to right with head facing, rendered in the manner of Athenian tetradrachm reverses adapted for local Philistian fractional coinage. An olive sprig appears to the left of the owl. The entire design is set within an incuse square, as is standard for hammered silver coinage of this period and region. The execution is local and somewhat crude relative to the Athenian prototypes it imitates. |
| Reverse script | Greek |
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Philistian coinage occupies one of the more contested corners of ancient numismatics — small silver fractions struck by coastal cities under Achaemenid suzerainty, their precise attribution still debated a century after scholars first noticed them. The Gitler/Tal corpus, published in 2006, remains the authoritative attempt to sort this material, grouping pieces by die-link and style where city names simply cannot be confirmed.
The IX series in that reference points toward one of the southern Levantine mints, possibly in the Gaza region, though the assignment stays deliberately cautious.