The term "Philisto-Arabian coins" is applied for the autonomous issues of the satraps, governors, chiefs, nomadic tribes and self-governing cities of Palestine. The obverse of this drachm depicts a bearded man. The reverse shows Bes, a god worshipped in Egypt, and throughout the Levant. The dwarflike Bes, often shown head-on as on this coin, was regarded as the defender of everything good and the enemy of all that is bad.