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Obol
| Issuer | Uncertain Philistian city |
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| Year | 450 BC - 333 BC |
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| Value | 1 Obol (⅙) |
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| Obverse description | Bearded male head facing left, rendered in a style combining Persian and Greco-Phoenician influences. The subject wears a tiara or headdress adorned with a beaded upper border, with curling locks of hair and beard rendered in fine relief. A dotted border frames the left side of the flan. The portrait occupies the full field of this small hammered flan, with no legend or inscription present. |
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| Reverse description | A lion passant left pounces upon a bull also moving left, depicted in vigorous combat within a shallow incuse square. The lion, rendered with a prominent mane in high relief, bites into or claws the back of the bull, whose forelegs buckle beneath the attack. The composition closely follows Achaemenid-period artistic conventions for predator-prey imagery. The incuse square border is clearly defined, and the field within is unadorned by legend or inscription. |
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| Mintage | ND (450 BC - 333 BC) |
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