Israel Numismatic Research
Published by the Israel Numismatic Society
Volume 2                                                    2007
Contents
3    Editors’ Note
5    Arie Kindler:
     The History of the Israel Numismatic Society
17   Oren Tal:
     Coin Denominations and Weight Standards in Fourth Century BCE Palestine
29   Yigal Ronen:
     Twenty Unrecorded Samarian Coins
35   Jarosław Bodzek:
     Remarks on the Iconography of Samarian Coinage.
     Hunting in Paradeisos?
47   Haim Gitler, Oren Tal and Peter van Alfen:
     Silver Dome-shaped Coins from Persian-period Southern Palestine
63   Catharine C. Lorber:
     The Ptolemaic Mint of Ras Ibn Hani
77   Oliver D. Hoover:
     A Seleucid Coinage of Demetrias by the Sea
89   Jean-Philippe Fontanille:
     Two Unrecorded Hasmonean Coins
93   David M. Jacobson:
     Military Helmet or Dioscuri Motif on Herod the Great’s Largest Coin?
103  Uriel Rappaport:
     Who Minted the Jewish War’s Coins?
117  Danny Syon:
     Yet Again on the Bronze Coins Minted at Gamla
123  David Hendin:
     Echoes of “Judaea Capta”: The Nature of Domitian’s Coinage
     of Judea and Vicinity
131  Stephen N. Gerson:
     A Newly Discovered Bar Kokhba Small Silver Overstruck
     on a Judea Capta Denar
133  David Amit and Gabriela Bijovsky:
     A Numismatic Update on the Northwestern Border of the
     Territory Controlled by Bar Kokhba Rebels
137  Alla Kushnir-Stein:
     Two Lead Weights from the Colony of Caesarea Maritima
143  Gabriela Bijovsky:
     AION: A Cosmic Allegory on a Coin from Tyre?
157  Nili Ahipaz:
     A Hoard of Byzantine Solidi from the Deir ‘Aziz Synagogue
167  Ariel Berman:
     An Exceptional Nizārī Ismāʿīli Coinage at Bāniyās
173  Issa M. Baidoun:
     An Exotic Ayyūbid Issue
179  Review:
     Jane DeRose Evans,
     The Coins and the Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Economy
     of Palestine. Boston 2006 (Bruno Callegher)
187  Abbreviations