Obol

正面描述	A lion couchant to right occupies the central field, rendered in the archaic Near Eastern style characteristic of Philistian coinage. Behind the lion rises a crenelated city wall featuring three distinct towers, likely a civic emblem identifying the issuing mint city. Below the lion, a series of wave patterns suggests a body of water, possibly referencing a coastal or riverine location. The composition is contained within the irregular flan typical of hammered silver issues of this period.
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附加信息	Philistian civic coinage of this period occupies a genuinely strange corner of ancient numismatics — these small silver fractions were struck by cities on the southern Levantine coast during the Persian satrapal period, when local authorities retained enough autonomy to mint but did so within an Athenian-influenced weight standard they had essentially borrowed wholesale. The attribution to a specific city remains contested; Gitler and Tal's classification acknowledges the uncertainty directly rather than forcing a provenance. The reference XV.3O places this piece within a typological grouping rather than a firm civic attribution — a distinction worth noting when comparing against other cataloged Philistian material.

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