Triton XIX, Lot: 316. Estimate $2000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

PHILISTIA (PALESTINE), Uncertain mint. Mid 5th century-333 BC. AR Tetradrachm (26mm, 16.89 g, 9h). Imitating Athens. Head of Athena right, with frontal eye, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor and a spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive sprig and crescent to left, T(?) in Aramaic and AΘE to right; all within incuse square. Unpublished. EF, surfaces a little bright. Extremely rare.

This coin comports with the description of the earliest groups of Giter & Tal’s category “Athenian Styled XI. Imitations with North-West Semitic Letters,” but it may belong to a mint elsewhere in the Levant.