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399, Lot: 267. Estimate $100.
Sold for $60. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southern. Saba'. Late 4th–mid 2nd centuries BC. AR nṣf – Unit (15.5mm, 5.14 g, 6h). Imitating Athens. Helmeted head of Athena right; N (in retrograde South Arabian; mark of value) on cheek / Owl standing right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left, symbols to right; all within incuse square. Van Alfen, Studies, SII.B.25, 198–205 var. (unlisted dies); CAF 1.4i8; HGC 10, 721. VF, find patina, struck with worn obverse die, area of flat strike on reverse.


From the Howard Simmons Collection of South Arabian Coinage.