I came across the following Yehud coin that I'd never seen before. Due to my lack of numismatic literature, this coin may have been published without my knowing.
I note its
legend is in early Aramaic
, not the regular YHD
style (
).
I note that interestingly the first letter in the
inscription seems like a
monogram of
and
. I have seen a similar
monogram in
AJC.
Meshorer describes the coin as Philisto-Arabian, with a YHD
monogram.
The second letter is hard to read, but i'm assuming it looks like the letter He (ה) from the British Museum
Drachm, whose script
style is nearly identical.
This may suggest a connection between these two coin issues - perhaps they are early.
I was recently reading Shenkar's "
The Coin of the ‘God on the Winged Wheel’".
In it, Shenkar suggests that if the reading of the Aramaic
inscription on the BM
Drachm reads YHD, the coin was likely minted in Jerusalem or Philistia, and the seated diety is the G-d of
Israel. If the
inscription has a W (Vav) instead of a D (Dalet), then the coin likely was minted in
Samaria and the seated deity is likely the Samaritan G-d.
I think the new coin seems to suggest that the
inscription is YHD, because there is no seated deity that accompanies the
inscription. On the
side of the
inscription, there seems to be a
lion attaking a
bull.
On the
Menorah Coin Project, this coin is listed as YHD01. It is notable that this coin is a
drachm, which further suggests a relation with the BM coin.
Thoughts? Has this coin been published? If so, what is written about this coin?
