CNG 90, Lot: 745. Estimate $500. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NABATAEA. Obodas II, with Hagaru I. 30-9 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 4.49 g, 12h). Dated year 16 (15/4 BC). Jugate diademed busts of Obodas and Hagaru right; Nabataean H to left / Diademed and draped bust of Obodas right; Nabataean 16 and H to left. Meshorer, Nabataea Sup. 3; DCA 965. VF, dark find patina, area of flat strike, a little roughness.

M. Huth, in his article “Some Nabataean Questions Reconsidered” in CCK, persuasively argues that there was no king Obodas II in 62-60 BC, and that all coins in the name of Obodas belong to the king of that name who ruled in 30-9 BC, who should be correctly named Obodas II, not III.