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Drachm
| Issuer | Uncertain Philistian city |
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| Year | 450 BC - 333 BC |
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| Value | Drachm (1) |
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| Reverse description | Two horse foreparts conjoined at the chest, one facing left and one facing right in a symmetrical heraldic arrangement, set within a dotted or pelleted square border. The entire design is presented within a recessed incuse square, a hallmark of early Philistian and Levantine silver coinage derived from Archaic Greek prototypes. The horse foreparts are rendered with schematic but vigorous lines, conveying movement and energy within the compact flan. No inscription or legend is present. |
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| Mintage | ND (450 BC - 333 BC) |
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Philistian coinage of this period exists in a documentary vacuum — no ancient source names the issuing authority, and the cities most often proposed (Gaza, Ashkelon, Ashdod) have never been confirmed through controlled archaeological excavation of a mint site. These coins circulated in a region that sat between competing Persian administrative zones and the commercial pull of Athenian trade, which explains why so many Philistian types borrow directly from Athenian prototypes while quietly inserting local iconographic elements. The Gitler and Tal corpus remains the definitive organizing framework precisely because no other classification has managed to sort the die evidence with comparable rigor.
XXVII.9D is among the rarer die pairings in the group.