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Greek Silver Fractions
Judaea, Achaemenid Persian Yehud Province, c. 375 - 332 B.C.

|Persian| |Rule|, |Judaea,| |Achaemenid| |Persian| |Yehud| |Province,| |c.| |375| |-| |332| |B.C.||gerah|
"The notable relationship between man and his god was that between supplicant and listener: the supplicant voices his prayer and entreaties to his god, and the god listens and tries to carry out his wishes. Thus the god's most important organ was his ear that heard the prayer..." -- Y. Meshorer in A Treasury of Jewish Coins.

"Incline Thine ear, O Lord, and answer me" (Psalms 86:1)

"for ye have wept in the ears of the Lord" (Numbers 11:18).
JD99503. Silver gerah, G-L-F Yehud type 13 (O1/R1), Hendin 6060 (RR), Menorah Coin Project YHD 13 (01/R1), Meshorer TJC 18, HGC 10 440, Bromberg -, Shoshana -, Sofaer -, VF, toned, off center, light marks and scratches, die wear, edge split, weight 0.295 g, maximum diameter 8.2 mm, Jerusalem (or nearby) mint, c. 350 - 332 B.C.; obverse ear (of God?); reverse falcon upward, head right, wings open, Aramaic (YHD) on right, read right to left (upward); very rare; SOLD


Ephesos, Ionia (or perhaps Bargylia, Caria), c. 2nd - 1st Century B.C.

|Ephesos|, |Ephesos,| |Ionia| |(or| |perhaps| |Bargylia,| |Caria),| |c.| |2nd| |-| |1st| |Century| |B.C.||trihemiobol|
The type is most often attributed to Ephesos, but the style and denomination/weight do not strongly support any link to that city. The NGC holder notes the origin may be Bargylia, Caria. The style certainly fits Bargylia better than Ephesos. The consignor of this coin, a professional numismatist, believes it was struck under Amyntas, King of Galatia, 37 - 25 B.C. Amyntas also issued Artemis and stag types.
SL97747. Silver trihemiobol, cf. SNG Davis 270, SNG Cop -, SNG Kayhan -, SNGvA -, BMC Galatia -, NGC Ch AU, strike 5/5, surface 3/5, brushed (6555578-004), weight 1.41 g, maximum diameter 11.4 mm, die axis 0o, Ephesos (near Selcuk, Turkey) mint, c. 2nd - 1st Century B.C.; obverse draped bust of Artemis right, quiver at shoulder; reverse forepart of stag right, head turned back left; NGC| Lookup; extremely rare; SOLD


Judah, Macedonian or Ptolemaic Rule, Satrap Hezekiah, c. 333 - 301 B.C.

|Greek| |Domination|, |Judah,| |Macedonian| |or| |Ptolemaic| |Rule,| |Satrap| |Hezekiah,| |c.| |333| |-| |301| |B.C.|
Josephus identifies Hezekiah as the High Priest of the Jews who offered friendship to Ptolemy I after his conquest of Palestine. Josephus mentions Hezekiah was sixty years old at the time of Ptolemy. Mildenberg identifies the head right on the obverse of this type as Ptolemy I.
SL89836. Silver Hendin 6065; Meshorer TJC 25; Meshore AJC I 12; Mildenberg Yehud p. 189 & pl. 22, 23; HGC 10 452 (R1 - R2), NGC NGC XF, strike 2/5, surface 3/5 (4283488-002), weight 0.189 g, maximum diameter 7.2 mm, die axis 90o, Jerusalem(?) mint, c. 375 - 333 B.C.; obverse male head (Ptolemy I?) right; reverse forepart of winged and horned lynx left; Aramaic inscription lower right: YHZQYH (Hezekiah); NGC certified with photo certificate of authenticity, not in a plastic holder - NGC| Lookup; rare; SOLD


Judaea, Achaemenid Persian Yehud Province, c. 375 - 333 B.C.

|Persian| |Rule|, |Judaea,| |Achaemenid| |Persian| |Yehud| |Province,| |c.| |375| |-| |333| |B.C.||half| |gerah|
Yehud, or Yehud Medinata (Aramaic for Province of Judah), was a province of the Persian Achaemenid Empire which corresponded to the previous Babylonian province of Yehud, which was formed after the fall of the kingdom of Judah to the Neo-Babylonian Empire in 597 B.C. The territory, which was ruled by mostly Jewish governors, was considerably smaller and held a far smaller population than the kingdom of Judah before the Babylonian conquest. Yehud existed until the area was incorporated into the empires of Alexander the Great and his successors.
SL97483. Silver half gerah, G-L-F Yehud type 16 (02/R2); Meshorer TJC pl. 2, 16c; Hendin 6058; Sofaer p. 241, 13; HGC 10 445 (S), NGC Ch XF (Choice Extremely Fine), strike 4/5, surface 3/5, scratches (2103763-001), weight 0.32 g, maximum diameter 6.5 mm, die axis 225o, c. 375 - 333 B.C.; obverse crowned and bearded male head (Persian king?) right, crown with four peaks and appendage; reverse falcon facing, flying upward, wings spread, head right, retrograde Aramaic inscription YHD (Yehud) on right, die break below beak; NGC| Lookup; very scarce; SOLD


Persian Empire, Samaria, 5th - 4th Century B.C.

|Persian| |Rule|, |Persian| |Empire,| |Samaria,| |5th| |-| |4th| |Century| |B.C.||half| |ma'ha| |(1/48| |shekel)|
Samaria was the capital of the northern Kingdom of Israel in the 9th - 8th centuries B.C. The Assyrians took the city and the northern kingdom in 722/721 B.C. The city did not recover until the Persian period, the mid 5th century. The tensions between the ruling Sanballat family and Jerusalem under the governorship of Nehemiah are documented in the Bible (Ezra 4:10, Neh 4:7–8). Samaria became Hellenistic in 332 B.C. Thousands of Macedonian soldiers were settled there following a revolt. The Judaean king John Hyrcanus destroyed Samaria in 108 B.C., but it was resettled under Alexander Jannaeus. In 63 B.C., Samaria was annexed to the Roman province of Syria. Herod the Great fortified the city and renamed it Sebaste. The ruins are located in the Samaria mountains almost 10 km to the northwest of Nablus.

This reverse type is copied from the obols of Sidon.
GS110667. Silver half ma'ha (1/48 shekel), unpublished denomination, cf. Meshorer-Qedar 203 (obol, 0.56g); Sofaer 134 (obol, 0.72); Samuels -; SNG ANS -; Hendin -; HGC 10 -, VF, centered, toned, rough, weight 0.223 g, maximum diameter 6.8 mm, die axis 0o, Samaria (Sebastia, West Bank) mint, 5th - 4th Century B.C.; obverse head of satrap left, bearded, wearing tiara and Assyrian coiffure; reverse Great king kneeling right, wearing kidaris and kandys, fighting a lion standing on its hind legs, the king has seized the lion by the mane with his left hand and holds a dagger in his right hand, all within a square dot border in a shallow square incuse; ex Gorny & Mosch auction 289 (10 Oct 2022), lot 450; ex Gert Cleff Collection (Wuppertal); ex Numismatica Ars Classica auction 64 (17-18 May 2012), lot 1679; this coin is one of only two specimens of this type sold in the last two decades recorded on Coin Archives; extremely rare; SOLD


Persian Empire, Samaria, c. 375 - 333 B.C.

|Persian| |Rule|, |Persian| |Empire,| |Samaria,| |c.| |375| |-| |333| |B.C.||obol|
The obverse was copied from a very rare Cilician obol (SNG Levante 201). The very interesting reverse appears to depict five coins with owl reverses, presumably Athenian tetradrachms. In "Coinage for Redeeming the Firstborn: An Ancient and Modern Jewish Ritual" in The Celator|, December 2002, pp. 14 - 22, Ronn Berrol discusses a possible connection to the pidyon haben (click the article title to read it online). The pidyon haben is a mitzvah through which a Jewish firstborn son is "redeemed" from predestination to serve as a priest by giving five silver coins to a Kohen.
GA96462. Silver obol, Meshorer-Qedar 141, Sofaer 185, HGC 10 418 (R2), VF, typical crude uneven weak strike, weight 0.604 g, maximum diameter 9.3 mm, Samaria (10 km NW of Nablus, West Bank) mint, middle Levantine' series, c. 375 - 333 B.C.; obverse triform bearded male head, wearing round cap; reverse five discs each with owl standing right and head facing (Athenian coins?), piled up with one in center on top of four around in a cruciform arrangement; ex Leu Numismatik web auction 12 (30 May 2020), lot 657; ex Canaan Collection; very rare; SOLD


Eryx, Sicily, c. 344 - 339 B.C.

|Punic| |Sicily|, |Eryx,| |Sicily,| |c.| |344| |-| |339| |B.C.||litra|
Eryx was founded by Elymians on the summit of a mountain in northwest Sicily, about 10 km from Drepana (modern Trapani), and 3 km from the sea-coast, at the site of modern Erice. The Elymians maintained friendly relations and alliances with Carthage and came into frequent conflict with the Greeks. In 397 B.C., however, Eryx joined Dionysius I of Syracuse. It was speedily recovered by Himilco the following year. It again fell into the hands of Dionysius shortly before his death in 367 B.C., but was soon recovered by the Carthaginians, and probably was subject to their rule until the expedition of Pyrrhus in 278 B.C.
GS84640. Silver litra, Campana CNAI 47; Jenkins I pl. 24, 24; SNG ANS 1348; Jameson 1894; Winterthur 630; HGC 2 324 (????) corr. (male head/man-faced bull); SNG Cop -, VF, toned, tight flan, obverse slightly off center, weight 0.567 g, maximum diameter 10.1 mm, die axis 270o, Eryx (Erice, Sicily) mint, Punic rule, c. 344 - 339 B.C.; obverse head of nymph left, hair in a bun at the crown, wearing triple-pendant earring and necklace; reverse bull standing left, Punic "RK" above; from the Nicholas Molinari Collection; very rare; SOLD


Persian Empire, Philistia - Gaza or Samaria, Reverse Imitative of Athens, c. 450 - 333 B.C.

|Persian| |Rule|, |Persian| |Empire,| |Philistia| |-| |Gaza| |or| |Samaria,| |Reverse| |Imitative| |of| |Athens,| |c.| |450| |-| |333| |B.C.||obol|
Gilter and Tall list four specimens of this extremely rare type, all in private collections, all struck with the same reverse die, and otherwise unpublished.
JD111398. Silver obol, Gitler-Tal p. 190, XIV 3Oc (4 spec., notes as otherwise unpublished), VF, dark tone, weight 0.450 g, maximum diameter 9.0 mm, die axis 270o, Gaza or Samaria mint, c. 450 - 333 B.C.; obverse bearded male head left, wearing Persian head dress, hair in a bun in back; reverse owl standing right, head facing, two dots in a circle upper left, (Aramaic yod) over downward E on right, all within an incuse square; extremely rare; SOLD


Ionia, c. 540 - 520 B.C.

|Archaic| |Electrum|, |Ionia,| |c.| |540| |-| |520| |B.C.||1/36th| |stater|
Very rare early electrum fraction.
SH21302. Electrum 1/36th stater, Mitchiner ATEC I, p. 391, 845, F/VF, weight 0.419 g, maximum diameter 5.67 mm, uncertain mint, c. 600 B.C.; obverse goose; reverse incuse square punch with three pellets; nice gold color; very rare; SOLD


Chalkidian League, Macedonia, 432 - 348 B.C.

|Other| |Macedonia|, |Chalkidian| |League,| |Macedonia,| |432| |-| |348| |B.C.||tetrobol|
In 432 B.C. Olynthos broke away from Athens and, with several other cities, formed the Chalkidian league. In 393, Amyntas III of Macedonia temporally transferred territory to Olynthos when he was driven out of Macedonia by Illyrians. When he was restored and the league did not return his lands, he appealed to Sparta. Akanthos and Apollonia, also appealed to Sparta, claiming league membership was not voluntary but enforced at the point of a sword. After a long war, in 379 these cities were made "autonomous" subject allies of Sparta. Weakened by the division, the league was destroyed by Philip II of Macedon in 348 B.C.
SH58584. Silver tetrobol, SNG ANS 517; SNG Cop 238; BMC Macedonia p. 68, 15; SGCV I 1425, Choice VF, weight 2.414 g, maximum diameter 14.0 mm, die axis 90o, Olynthos mint, c. 430 - 420 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo left, Δ behind; reverse XAΛKIΔEΩN, kithara (lyre), squared legend around, all within a linear square border inside a shallow square incuse; ex Ralph Demarco; scarce; SOLD




  




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