LEVANTINE REGION. Uncertain, 1st century BC. Weight of 1 Tetarton (Lead, 62 x 65 mm, 188.19 g), year 27 of an unknown era. ETOYΣ ZK / MK / AΓO-PANO/MON-TOΣ / ...OY / TETAPTON in six lines; in the center, grain ear. Rev. Latticework design. Pondera -. Unpublished. Minor scuffs on the obverse, otherwise, very fine.


This weight is dated to the 27th year of an unknown, likely local era. It probably originates from the 1st century BC, when many cities in the Levant abandoned the Seleukid era and established their own eras. Weights with grain ears have so far been known from Laodikeia, Berytos, and Skythopolis. Whether our specimen also comes from one of these cities or another polis remains uncertain due to the absence of an ethnic.