A Silver-Plated Samarian Coin from Tel Dor
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This article presents a Samarian silver-plated “drachm”/rbʻ šql that was recently found at Tel
Dor. Depicted on the obverse is a combat scene between two warriors. The author suggests a
new reading for the letters on the obverse and discusses the iconography of the coin, which
has no parallel in any other Persian-period coins. Yet, some analogy to the scene on the coin
is found in Achemenid cylinder seals and suggests that this specific coin type originated in
glyptic art.
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Yoav Farhi
This article presents a Samarian silver-plated “drachm”/rbʻ šql that was recently found at Tel
Dor. Depicted on the obverse is a combat scene between two warriors. The author suggests a
new reading for the letters on the obverse and discusses the iconography of the coin, which
has no parallel in any other Persian-period coins. Yet, some analogy to the scene on the coin
is found in Achemenid cylinder seals and suggests that this specific coin type originated in
glyptic art.