Obol

正面描述	Helmeted head of Athena in right profile, rendered in the Athenian style with a frontal eye characteristic of archaic and early classical coinage. The goddess wears a crested Attic helmet decorated with a pi-style palmette flanked by three olive leaves on the bowl. The die work reflects the local Philistian adaptation of Athenian prototypes, with slightly cruder engraving typical of peripheral mint production.
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背面文字	Greek
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附加信息	Philistian civic coinage of this period remains one of the more contested areas of ancient numismatics — the issuing city for this type is unresolved, with Gaza, Ashkelon, and several smaller centers all proposed at various points. These tiny silver fractions circulated in a coastal zone heavily trafficked by Phoenician merchants, Greek traders, and Achaemenid administrative personnel simultaneously, which explains the wildly eclectic iconographic borrowing visible across the series as a whole. Gitler and Tal's exhaustive 2006 corpus brought systematic order to what had been a chaotic field, separating issues previously lumped together under vague "Philisto-Arabian" attributions.

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