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Sale 106
The September 3-5, 2018 Pre-Long Beach Auction
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Lot 1106 |
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Lot 1107 |
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| Unsold |
Lot 1108 |
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Judaea, Yehud (Judah). Silver Gerah (0.49 g), ca. 375-332 BCE. Head of Persian king wearing jagged crown right. Reverse: 'YHD' (Yehud), owl standing right, head facing; in upper left field, lily. Hendin 1057a; TJC 6. Toned. Fine / Very Fine. Estimate Value $250 - 300
The Palm Desert Collection Purchase from Superior 1970s-80s.
This coin combines types related to the two competing influences on Judaean political and monetary affairs in the fourth century BC. The obverse features a stylized head wearing a crenellated crown - almost certainly intended to represent the Persian Great King who ruled over Judaea as the administrative district of Yehud - and an owl copied from contemporary coins of Athens, whose coins had become an international symbol of good money despite frequent Athenian conflict with Persian interests. Here, the olive spray that normally accompanies the owl on official Athenian coins has been transformed into a lily, the emblem of Jerusalem.
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$144 |
Lot 1109 |
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Judaea, Yehud (Judah). Silver 1/2 Gerah (0.19 g), ca. 375-332 BCE. Lily. Reverse: 'YHD' (Yehud), falcon with wings displayed, head turned to right. Hendin 1060; TJC 15. About Very Fine. Estimate Value $250 - 300
The Palm Desert Collection Purchase from Superior 1970s-80s.
The obverse of this coin proudly identifies itself as produced in Jerusalem through the prominent lily type. This became so well established as the badge of the city and its local rulers that it appeared on later Seleukid coins struck by the High Priest John Hyrcanus I for Antiochos VII Sidetes in 132-130 BCE, and Hyrcanus' descendant, the Priest-King Alexander Jannaeus (103-76 BCE).
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$690 |
Lot 1110 |
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Judaea, Yehud (Judah). Hezekiah. Silver 1/2 Ma'ah Obol (0.22 g), ca. 375-332 BCE. Blank. Reverse: 'YHZQYH' (Yehezqio - Hezekiah), forepart of winged and horned lynx left. Cf. Hendin 1065-6; cf. TJC 24. Toned. Very Fine. Estimate Value $250 - 300
The Palm Desert Collection.
This remarkable coin names Hezekiah, who is usually identified as a High Priest of Jerusalem serving as governor of Judaea in the late Persian period. Lorber and Gitler have argued that the use of the Persic weight standard for this issue seems to support this dating, although it is also possible that it was struck shortly after the conquest of the region by Alexander the Great in 333/2 BC. Subsequent issues of Hezekiah feature the Attic standard favored by Alexander, but the young male head that is normally found on this Persic-weight issue seems out of place in the late Persian period. The peculiar lynx-griffin type of the reverse reflects local taste - similar creatures occur on Philistian and Samarian coinages of the fourth century BC.
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Lot 1111 |
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Judaea, Yehud (Judah). Silver 1/4 Ma'ah-Obol (0.34 g), ca. 375-332 BCE. Lily. Reverse: Owl standing right, head facing; in upper left field, lily. Hendin 1072; TJC 21. Very Fine. Estimate Value $250 - 300
The Palm Desert Collection Purchase from Kreindler 1980s.
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$132 |
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