Unpublished variety

438, Lot: 252. Estimate $100. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NABATAEA. Malichos II. AD 40-70. Æ (12.5mm, 2.01 g, 12h). Laureate head right; M (in Nabataean) to right / MLKW (= Malichos, in Nabataean) in two lines within wreath. Barkay, Nabataean 24 var. (name in one line); Meshorer, Nabataea 141 var. (same). VF, earthen dark green patina. Extremely rare, and unpublished, variety; none in Barkay’s recent study, nor in CoinArchives.