CNG 99, Lot: 368. Estimate $400. Sold for $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NABATAEA. Aretas IV, with Huldu. 9 BC-AD 40. AR Drachm (15.5mm, 4.46 g, 12h). Petra mint. Dated RY 10 (AD 1/2). Laureate and draped bust of Aretas right / Veiled and draped bust of Huldu right; date in two lines behind. Meshorer, Nabataea –; Hoover & Barkay 42 = Barkay, New 7 var. (date in numeral form, letter in rev. field); Huth –; Sofaer 51 (same dies); CNG 75, lot 344; DCA 973. VF, lightly toned, off center, weakly struck. Extremely rare, apparently the fourth known drachm of Aretas’ year 10, one of two with date spelled out (the other is in the ANS).