Presumably using the Phoenician alphabet on Alexander Jannaeus’ cash was simulating the First-Temple biblical letterset, which had been in place tons of of years earlier. This coin uses a round O for the letter Samek S when writing the name…

It is a Hebrew numerology calculator with various choices like a gematria worth of words, names, phrases, or a batch of text. And again the ultimate final four letters are given the worth of one hundred, 200, 300, and 400…