Obol "Uah"

Features

Issuer	Uncertain Philistian city (Cities of Philistia)
Type	Standart tedavül madenî paralar
Yıllar	400 MÖ - 300 MÖ
Value	1 Obol (⅙)
Currency	Drachm
Composition	Gümüş
Ağırlık	0.5 g
Diameter	11 mm
Şekil	Yuvarlak (düzensiz)
Technique	Dövme
Orientation	Değişik hizalamalar ↺
Demonetized	Evet
Numara	N# 442799
Referanslar	SNG Delepierre# 3043, 3044 Hélène Nicolet-Pierre, Georges Le Rider; 1983. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, France / Volume 1. Bibliothèque nationale de France: Collection Jean et Marie Delepierre. Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France. , SNG Copenhagen# 107 Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: Royal Collection of Greek Coins. Danish National Museum. Copenhagen, Denmark (44 volumes). , SNG ANS 6# 28 Yaʻakov Meshorer; 1981. Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum: The Collection of the American Numismatic Society / Part 6. Palestine-South Arabia. American Numismatic Society, New York City, New York, United States.

Obverse

(en) Head of Athena right, wearing round earring and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves and a spiral palmette on the bowl.

Reverse

(en) Owl standing right, head facing. Olive sprig to left, hieroglyph "uah" (wꜣḥ) and AΘE to right, all within incuse square.

Scripts: Yunanca, Hiyeroglif

Lettering:
𓎝
AΘE

Comments

(en)

Imitation of the Athenian owl coins.

Only eight specimens are known, all from a treasure found in Sicily in 1890 (IGCH 2165). The treasure also contained a smaller coin with the same type (0.12 g - quarter obol) and a coin with a lion's head.

Julien Olivier; 2024. “À la recherche des chouettes « uah ». Le trésor de Sicile 1890”. Bulletin de la Société Française de Numismatique, 79 | 08, pages 363-371.

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Date					VG	F	VF	XF	AU	UNC
Undetermined
ND (400 MÖ - 300 MÖ)

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