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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Broucheion, post: 7936903, member: 104887&quot;]Hi All,</p><p><br /></p><p>One of my favorite small coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1373116[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Ar Quarter Obol</b></p><p><b>Size: </b>6x7 mm</p><p><b>Weight:</b> 0.17 g</p><p><b>Die Axis:</b> 02:00</p><p><b>Obv:</b> Ptolemy I head facing right, wearing diadem. Plain border.</p><p><b>Rev:</b> Εagle on thunderbolt facing left, wings spread. In left field: four-letter legend YHDH in Aramaic script. Plain border.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>References:</b> Lorber CPE-254; Gitler &amp; Lorber, Group 7, #16 [129 listed]; TJC 32; Svoronos-Unlisted</p><p><br /></p><p>See also: R Deutsch <i>Six Unrecorded &#039;Yehud&#039; Silver Coins</i>, in Israel Numismatic Journal vol 11, no 4 1990/1991. Also: Ya’akov Meshorer, <i>Ancient Jewish Coinage 1</i> (New York: Amphora, 1982), pp 13-34 &amp; Meshorer <i>Ancient Jewish Coinage. Addendum</i> in INJ vol 11 no 104 1990/1991. Leo Mildenberg in <i>Essays Thompson</i> (1979). Also see INJ vol 5, pp 4 and Uriel Rappaport, <i>The Coins of Jerusalem at the End of Persian Rule and the Beginning of the Hellenistic Period</i>, in &quot;Jerusalem in the Second Temple Period: Schalit Memorial Volume,&quot; ed. Aaron Oppenheimer et al. (Jerusalem: Ben Zvi Institute, 1981), pp 11-21 (in Hebrew). Yigal Ronen (Near Eastern Archeaology, vol 61, no 2, 1998). Ronen classes Ptolemaic Jerusalem coins of average weight 0.18g as one quarter obol (tetartemorion).</p><p><br /></p><p>- Broucheion[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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