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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 2561606, member: 58462&quot;]Just this morning a mystery that has been bothering me for some time has been solved. I thought some might find this overstruck drachm interesting. Can you figure out the undertype?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]552213[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Overstruck Drachm</b></p><p>PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Uncertain mint. Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 3.95 g, 12h). Imitating Athens. Overstruck on uncertain type.</p><p>O: Helmeted head of Athena right, with profile eye </p><p>R: Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig left; all within incuse square. </p><p>-Gitler &amp; Tal IX.1D; HGC 10, –. </p><p><br /></p><p>The Philistian coins belong to a stratum of autonomous municipal coinages that enabled daily trade without being noticed by the Persian administration. The Persian Empire did not care about the fiscal policy of its subjects, so long as the taxes were paid. Obviously, the provincials were free to choose their own coin-types. Like their Northern neighbors in Samaria and Jerusalem, the Philistians adopted the Attic coin standard, and a great many of their coins are imitations of the Attic coins circulating in the Levant.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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