204, Lot: 31. Estimate $150. Sold for $215. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southern. Himyar. WTR. Late 1st century BC - 1st century AD. AR 1/4 Unit (0.37 g, 12h). Monogram / Sabaean WTR above the ‘curved sign’. Munro-Hay 3.17iii; SNG ANS -; BMC -. VF, porous. Very rare, only four examples were known to Munro-Hay at the time of publication.

Munro-Hay notes that there are three different monograms (monograms 54, 88, and 129) featured on the obverse of this very rare fraction. This coin, as well as CNG 37 (20 March 1996), lot 708 and Lanz 141 (26 May 2008), lot 241, has a reversed version of monogram 129 (i.e., Munro-Hay monogram 128).