Catalog 334
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The Samel Collection of Jewish Coins and Medals

Lot 2002

Lot 2002

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Estimated price 150 €
Result 170 €

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Description

AR-Hemiobol, Jerusalem?; 0,31 g.

Bearded head of the Persian king crowned with a kidaris (jagged crown) to r.//Falcon or eagle with spread wings, in the r. field YHDH (Judaea). Hendin no. 1059; Meshorer, Treasury 198 no. 16.

Rare. Fine/nearly very fine

Overbeck – Meshorer no. 2.

The eagle (or falcon) was the Achaemenids' heraldic bird. According to a mythic tradition the dynasty’s founder was nurtured by an eagle; cf. W. Fauth, Gyges und die 'Falken', Hermes 96, 1968, 257-264, esp. 259; R. Schmitt, Der Adler im Alten Iran, Die Sprache 16, 1970, 63-77; D. Metzler, Der Adler als achämenidisches Herrschaftszeichen, in: Vom Euphrat bis zum Bosporus. Kleinasien in der Antike. Festschrift für E. Schwertheim zum 65. Geburtstag, Bonn 2008, 461-470.