CNG 108, Lot: 382. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southern. Himyar. 'Amdān Bayān Yahaqbiḍ. Circa AD 100-120. AV Fraction (8mm, 0.37 g, 3h). Scyphate type. Raydan mint. Monogram within dotted circular border / Small head right; ‘scepter’ to left. Unpublished, but for silver fractions with these types, cf. CAF 3.10iii and cf. Huth 446. Near EF. One of two known.

Arabian gold issues are extremely rare. This same ruler is known to have issued a larger scyphate gold unit, known from two examples (Huth 436 and CNG 100, lot 107), that must have been issued concurrently with the present gold fraction, alongside silver units and fractions with the same types.