Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1062. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southeast (Macai). Abi'el. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. BI Tetradrachm (15.66 g, 11 h). 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; no pellets in fields. Potts Class XLVII, 425. Good VF, toned, a few small spots of encrustation on reverse. Very rare. ($750)