Beschreibung

AR-Hemiobol, Jerusalem; 0,21 g.

Head of a lion to r., degraded to the shape of an egg or pellet///YHWDH (Yehudah = Judaea) around a dove standing to r., head turned back. Hendin no. 1075c; Meshorer, Treasury 200 no. 27.

Fine/good fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 8.

The species of the bird depicted is under discussion (dove, eagle, duck?), cf. Hendin 119 f., who tended to identify the bird as a duck and to link it to duck-shaped scale weights used by Babylonians and Egyptians. If the bird is a dove, this could be a pointer that the coin was minted not in Jerusalem but in a city with significant cults of Herakles (lion) and Aphrodite (dove).