CNG 99, Lot: 372. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Eastern. Mleiha(?). 1st century BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 15.91 g). Imitating the reverse type of Alexander III of Macedon. Smooth convex surface / Shams, wearing tainia and chlamys, seated left on backless throne, holding eagle in his extended right hand, leaning with his left on a long staff; in left field. ΓA monogram above arm, Arabian šin, vertically oriented, and TA monogram below arm; [...]ΛIIΛPIOY to right, ZV in exergue. Potts, Suppl., Class L, 136 var. (position of lower monogram, nothing in exergue); Huth –; HGC 10, 700. EF, toned, scrape on obverse. Exceptional for this very rare issue.