399, Lot: 272. Estimate $150. Sold for $95. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southern. Saba'. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. AR tmrt – Quarter Unit (14mm, 1.43 g, 6h). Imitating Athens ‘New Style’ coinage. Laureate male head right within wreath / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; monograms flanking, T (in South Arabian; mark of value) above tail, curved symbol of Almaqah to lower right. CAF 1.13iii1; Huth 291; HGC 10, 738. VF, toned, double struck on obverse. Rare.

From the Howard Simmons Collection of South Arabian Coinage.