Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1060. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $325. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southeast (Macai). Abi'el. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. BI Drachm (4.26 g, 6h). Mleiha mint. Imitating Alexander III of Macedon. Degraded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Figure seated left, right arm extended, holding staff in left hand; on right arm, horse standing right; date-palm and tri-fluked anchor in left field, "Abi'el" in blundered Aramaic in outer right field, pellet below throne; three pellets behind figure. Potts, Supplement, Class XLIV, 310-311 var. (four pellets behind figure). Good VF, toned. Very rare. ($300)

From the Robert Weimer Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 45 (18 March 1998), lot 744.