Sale: Triton X, Lot: 410. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southeast (Macai). Abi’el. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. BI Tetradrachm (14.78 g, 12h). Mleiha mint. Imitating Alexander III of Macedon. Stylized head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin headdress; “wart” on cheek / Figure seated right, left arm extended, holding scepter in right hand; on right arm, horse standing left; date-palm and cone-shaped object (obelisk?) in right field, "Abi'el" in blundered Aramaic in outer right field, tri-fluked anchor behind figure. Potts 481-4; Potts, Supplement 411. Good VF, toned. Extremely rare; two examples of this variety known to Potts.