Circulation of Southern Palestinian Athenian-Styled Fractions after the Conquest of Alexander the Great

Abstract

While the local southern Palestinian issues imitating the Athenian pi-styled owls depicting the
head of Athena with a profile eye are customarily dated to after 353 BCE, the assumption that
their circulation ended with the Greco-Macedonian conquest is contested below, suggesting
that not only were these coins circulating in Palestine late in the fourth century BCE, but they
may have been issued as late as the first quarter of the third century BCE. Our arguments are
primarily based on the archaeological context and composition of four different published and
previously unpublished hoards.