Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 700. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Uncertain. 2nd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (15.29 gm, 12h). Diademed male head right / Figure seated right, holding patera and branch, upon which bird is perched; reversed swastika in right field. Potts -; cf. Gemini 1, lot 258. VF, die rust, some roughness, test cut on reverse. Unpublished. ($750)

This, and the following, coins are part of a small group of imitative coins that has recently appeared on the market (see Gemini 1, lots 258-260, for the others). Their obverse and reverse types appear to copy either Alexandrine or Seleukid prototypes, but their overall style and certain attributes defy certain placement into any of the known series in Arabia, or those farther east.