Biblical & Jewish Coins
Lot 3403 Session 11 (9.30am Thursday) Biblical & Jewish Coins
Estimate $300
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SAMARIA, Satrap issue, (375-345 B.C.), silver obol, (0.482 grams), obv. female head (Arethusa?), facing, border of dots, rev. bearded male head to left, with crested Athenian helmet, to left in Aramaic, traces of SMRYN, (Meshorer & Qedar 'Coinage of Samaria' (CS), CS 8 (30 known), and Samaria Hoard No.95 (CS), (This Coin illustrated and described). Weak in places as usual, good fine for issue and rare.
Ex Samaria Hoard (No.98) and Sotheby, Zurich Sale, October 27-8, 1993 (lot 989 part). See note above.
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