339, Lot: 189. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Uncertain mint. Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Drachm (12mm, 3.00 g, 2h). Bearded head left / Owl standing right, head facing; behind, crescent above retrograde Aramaic yod; all within incuse square. Gitler & Tal XIV.16D (same dies); Fischer-Bossert, Notes 36 (Ashdod); HGC 10, –. VF, toned, porous, a few small breaks in plating. Extremely rare.

Possibly a fourrée, as faint traces of what may be a base metal core appear around 3 o'clock on the obverse edge.