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Catalogue information
LastDodo number
6246045
Area
Coins
Title
Tyre, Phoenicia 1/12th shekel (gerah) 400-360 BCE
Country
Face value
Year
-400
Variety / overstrike
Head of State
Type
Designer
Series
Theme
Material
Gold- or silver content
Weight
0.67
Diameter
Thickness
Punch
Shape
Obverse
( Owl with crook & flail under wing )
Reverse
( Hippocamp )
Edge
Privy mark
Mint mark
Number produced
Krause and Mishler number
Cop-305, BM-23-24
Catalogue number
Details
A gerah is an ancient Hebrew unit of weight and currency, equivalent to one-twentieth of a shekel, a shekel being 180 barleycorns or 60 carob. The mass is ca. 0.6 grams.
Shekels were struck during the fifth and fourth centuries BCE by several rulers of Tyre, a city of ancient Phoenicia.