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174, Lot: 66. Estimate $150.
Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SAMARIA. Jeroboam. Circa 375-333 BC. AR Obol (8mm, 0.58 g). Gorgoneion / Bearded male kneeling right, offering uncertain object (crown?). Meshorer & Qedar 46. Good VF, dark find patina.


Ex Classical Numismatic group 73 (13 September 2006), lot 465.

Meshorer has suggested that Jeroboam might be the Samarian name of Manassas, a Jerusalemite who married Nikaso, the daughter of Sanballat, and became the Samarian High Priest, and possibly the governor of the province.