293, Lot: 149. Estimate $100. Sold for $310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NABATAEA. Aretas IV, with Shaqilat. 9 BC-AD 40. AR Drachm (17mm, 3.65 g, 12h). Petra mint. Dated RY 26 (AD 16/7). Laureate bust of Aretas right / Laureate, veiled, and draped bust of Shaqilat right. Meshorer, Nabataea –; Huth –; Hoover & Barkay –; Schmitt-Korte II –; DCA 975 (unrecorded year). VF, toned, minor porosity, flatness on high points. Well centered with full legends. Rare year.

Karl Schmitt-Korte, discussing another drachm with jugate heads of the queen and king on the obverse (p. 120, 70), notes that year 26 is the earliest known year for Shaqilat.