Israel Numismatic Research
Published by the Israel Numismatic Society
Volume 3                                              2008
Contents
3    Jarosław Bodzek:
     A Note on a Samarian Coin-Type
13   Haim Gitler, Matthew Ponting and Oren Tal:
     Metallurgical Analysis of Southern Palestinian Coins of the Persian Period
29   Jean-Philippe Fontanille:
     Extreme Deterioration and Damage on Yehud Coin Dies
45   Jean-Philippe Fontanille and Catharine C. Lorber:
     Silver Yehud Coins with Greek or Pseudo-Greek Inscriptions
51   Pere Pau Ripollès:
     The X4 Hoard (Spain): Unveiling the Presence of Greek Coinages during the Second Punic War
65   Georges Voulgaridis:
     Some Thoughts on Mints, Monograms and Monetary Magistrates.
     Two Case Studies: the Mints of ‘Akko-Ptolemais and of Ascalon under the Seleucids
81   Oliver D. Hoover:
     Ptolemaic Lead Coinage in Coele Syria (103–101 BCE)
87   David Hendin and Ilan Shachar:
     The Identity of YNTN on Hasmonaean Overstruck Coins and the Chronology of the Alexander Jannaeus Types
95   Moshie Fischer and Zvi Gur:
     The Coin Finds from Horbat Mazad
117  Cecilia Meir:
     Tyrian Sheqels and Half Sheqels with Unpublished Dates from the ‘Isifya Hoard in the Kadman Numismatic Pavilion
125  Alla Kushnir-Stein:
     Reflection of Religious Sensitivities on Palestinian City Coinage
137  Yehoshua Zlotnik:
     Coin Finds and the Question of the Conquest of Jerusalem by Bar Kokhba
147  Zvi Uri Ma'oz:
     Ships on Roman Provincial Coins in the Southern Levant:
     Voyages on the River Styx
163  Bruno Callegher:
     A Provincial Weight from after the Monetary Reform of 538 CE
175  D. Michael Metcalf:
     Crusader Numismatics: How Immobilized Types are Classified,
     How Chronologies are Revised and Verified,
     and How Coins are Attributed to Their Mints
189  Review:
     Oliver Hoover, Coins of the Seleucid Empire from the Collection of Arthur Houghton,
     Part II. New York 2007 (Danny Syon)
192  Review:
     Bruno Callegher, Cafarnao IX. Monete dall’area urbana di Cafarnao (1968–2003). Jerusalem 2007;
     Cécile Morrisson, Vladislav Popović and Vujadin Ivanišević,
     Les trésors monétaires byzantines des Balkans et d’Asie Mineure (491–713). Paris 2006
     (Gabriela Bijovsky)
200  Abbreviations