Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1061. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southeast (Macai). Abi'el. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. BI Tetradrachm (16.48 g, 12h). Mleiha mint. Imitating Alexander III of Macedon. Degraded head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress / Figure seated left, arms extended to right and left; on right arm, horse standing right; date-palm and tri-fluked anchor in left field, "Abi'el" in blundered Aramaic in outer right field, four pellets behind figure, three pellets above and below strut of chair. Potts, Supplement, Class XLVII, 385-386 (same dies). Good VF, toned, a few small spots of encrustation on reverse. Extremely rare; two examples of this variety known to Potts. ($1000)