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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8174281, member: 118780&quot;]Nice coins! I don&#039;t recognize the first one. Do we know who minted it?</p><p><br /></p><p>The second looks like Samaria. I recently picked up a coin from there.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1428338[/ATTACH] </p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Samaria &#039;Middle Levantine&#039; Series. Circa 375-333 BCE</font></font></p><p><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4"><p style="text-align: center">AR Obol 9.7mm 0.65g</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Phoenician galley left (&#039;b&#039; in Phoenician) above, waves below.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">R: Persian king or hero, holding dagger in his right hand, standing right, grasping lion standing right, head to left, at mane; in field, O; all within incuse square.</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Meshorer &amp; Qedar 199</p></font></font></p><p style="text-align: center"><font face="Book Antiqua"><font size="4">Ex Ars Coin Wien</p><p></font></font></p><p><br /></p><p>Samaria pulled off their own boneheaded move, when they killed the small garrison Alexander left there. Alexander, of course, turned around and demolished the city. Of them, roughly 300 high-born families retreated to a cave. Alexander&#039;s soldiers just lit a fire at the front and asphyxiated them all. Their bodies and everything they brought to the cave was only uncovered ~60 years ago and was a fascinating find.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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