443, Lot: 170. Estimate $200. Sold for $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ARABIA, Southern. Saba'. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. AR
nṣf – Unit (25.5mm, 5.24 g, 9h). Imitating Athens ‘New Style’ coinage. Laureate male head right within wreath / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; monogram and ‘cursive inscription’ to left and above,
N (in South Arabian; mark of value) above tail; to right, ΛOE above royal Sabaean monogram and curved symbol of
Almaqah. CAF 1.11i; Huth 279; HGC 10, 724. VF, toned, typical crude strike.