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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Judean & Biblical Coins| > |Persian Rule| > GA96462
Persian Empire, Samaria, c. 375 - 333 B.C.
|Persian| |Rule|, |Persian| |Empire,| |Samaria,| |c.| |375| |-| |333| |B.C.|, 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, Samaria (10 km NW of Nablus, West Bank) mint, weight 0.604g, maximum diameter 9.3mm, 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




  







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