More Evidence on the Collective Mint of Philistia

Abstract

This article discusses several matters relating to the likelihood that the coinage of Philistia
was struck in a collective mint. Links of Ashdodan and Gazan epigraphic dies with
anepigraphic dies of Philistian coins are considered, as are the sociopolitical implications
of these links against the coinage’s circulation, weight standard, axes, metallurgical
analysis and the predominance use of the archaic eye motif in the coins. The number
of coins struck from the same pair or several pairs of dies, and coins known in single
specimens, are tabulated in an appendix.