Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 375. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Uncertain. Mid 4th - early 3rd centuries BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.14 g, 3h). Imitating contemporary Athens tetradrachm. Head of Athena left, wearing helmet decorated with olive leaves and spiral palmette on the bowl / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left, AΘE to right. Cf. Munro-Hay pl. XLIX, 50. Near EF, test cut on reverse. Very rare.

The Munro-Hay coin attributes to Quataban, but there are subtle differences in style indicating that the present coin is not from the same series.