Language:
English
Year of publication:
2007
Titel der Quelle:
Israel Numismatic Research
Angaben zur Quelle:
2 (2007) 47-62
Keywords:
Coins, Ancient
;
Weights and measures, Ancient
;
Seals (Numismatics)
;
Eretz Israel History 586 B.C.-70 A.D., Exilic and Second Temple period
Abstract:
The paper discusses a so far unknown group of peculiar Athenian-styled Palestinian coins. This group, which includes mainly “drachms” but some “obols” as well, was struck from worn obverse dies (i.e., dies damaged by prolonged use), which were then recut and repolished. As a result, the coins’ obverse in many cases is simply dome-shaped, with no traces of Athena’s head or helmet being recognizable. The coins’ distribution suggests that they circulated in the boundaries of what we define as Edom in the later part of the Persian period and might well have been the silver money mentioned in several of the Edomite ostraca.
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