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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8278263, member: 128351&quot;]These unmarked pseudo-Athenian coins can only be attributed if we know where they are found. The question is complex.</p><p>The Ashkelon 1989 hoard (CH 9.369) contained 21 Athenian-style obols struck with the same reverse die. It should mean that these die-linked obols had not circulated much and were found very near their mint location, i.e. Ascalon. But other Athenian-styled similar obols or hemiobols were found in the Samaria Hoard (CH 9.413). In Tell Rafah hundreds of die-linked Athenian-style drachms have been found (imitating Athens&#039; pi-style), there again the most likely mint-location is Raphia.</p><p>No hoard of this sort has been reported from Gaza city, but there is a beach just near the Shatteh refugees camp (AKA Beach Camp) where tiny minute silver coins are very often found. I have a sample of these finds, silver coins 7 to 10 mm in diameter, weight more or less 1 gram.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1461816[/ATTACH] These are mostly 4th c. BC Phoenician coins from Byblos, Sidon (4 coins), an unmarked Athenian-style one and an Alexander hemiobol (uncertain eastern mint, perhaps Byblos or Arados). There was also a Samaria coin but I don&#039;t have it anymore, and another Athenian-style obol or hemiobol.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On this beach, which corresponds to the ancient port of Anthedon (probably part of the ancient port of Gaza), it was a mixture of Phoenician, Samarian and Philistian coins that circulated in the 4th c. BC. The unmarked Athenian-style coins are not predominant, but they should have been if they had been minted in Gaza.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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