NABATAEA. Aretas IV, with Huldu. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40. AR Sela’ (18mm, 3.84 g, 1h). Petra mint. Dated RY 5 (5/4 BC).

Triton XXV
Lot: 505. Estimated: $ 1 000

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NABATAEA. Aretas IV, with Huldu. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40. AR Sela’ (18mm, 3.84 g, 1h). Petra mint. Dated RY 5 (5/4 BC). Head of Aretas right, wearing laurel wreath / ḤRTT MLK NBṬW [RḤS ‘MH] (in Nabataean = Aretas King of the Nabataeans, who loves his people), jugate draped busts of Aretas, wearing laurel wreath, and Huldu, wearing diadem, right; [ŠN]T 5 (in Nabataean = year 5 [date]) at end of legend to left. CN 111 var. (letters flanking busts on rev.); Meshorer, Nabataea –; DCA –. Toned, some roughness, a little off center. Good VF. Very rare.


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