Four Unpublished Varieties
CNG 100, Lot: 1590. Estimate $3000. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ARABIA, Southern. Qataban. Unknown ruler(s). Circa 350-320/00 BC. AR
’rb‘t – Tetradrachm (21mm, 16.47 g, 8h). Imitating Athens. Helmeted head of Athena right, wearing earring, necklace, and crested Attic helmet decorated with three olive leaves over visor, a spiral palmette on the bowl, and monogram (of South Arabian letters
r,
w, and
n) on neck guard / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left, Royal Qatabanian monogram and AΘE to right. Van Alfen,
Studies, Type QI.C, unlisted variety (monogram on obv.); CAF 1.0a4 var. (same); Huth –; HGC 10, 707. Good VF, toned, slight die shift. Unpublished variety.
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 346 (obv. monogram not noted).