Two Arabian Alexanders

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 409. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southeast (Macai). Abi’el. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. BI Tetradrachm (15.42 g, 12h). Mleiha mint. Imitating Alexander III of Macedon. Stylized head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; “wart” cut into cheek / Figure seated left, right arm extended, holding scepter 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, five pellets behind figure. Potts 390; Potts, Supplement 309. Good VF, lightly toned. Extremely rare; two examples of this variety known to Potts.