8mm from Palestine-Israel region

[helvetica]

This tiny 8mm AE coin was found in Israel/Palestine.
The obverse is somewhat incuse and has a bare-headed, bearded male head right with a long, square cut beard (the face is quite thick so on the image, you need to look at the dark outline to the right of the brighter part).
The reverse is a female head right with hair bound in a stephane.
Does anyone know which city it could be from ?

[Aarmale]

Looks Samaritan or perhaps Philisto-Arabian.

It looks like the coin may be:
http://numismatics.org/collection/2010.77.243
(or similar)

[helvetica]

Hi Aarmale
Many thanks, that certainly looks like mine and the size etc. are comparable.
Many thanks !

[Snegovik]

Is AE a typo? Samarian fractions are AR.

[helvetica]

It's very difficult to tell with it being so small, it's not all silvery and I just presumed it was AE because of the colour, but looking at the ANS example, theirs doesn't look so silvery either. I am sure it is the same type though.

[Robert_Brenchley]

I bet it's AR under there. It looks like Meshorer and Qadar 186.

[helvetica]

Thanks for the ref. number, Richard. I might pop it into watered-down lemon juice for a few seconds but it's so tiny I'll probably lose it in the saucer