397, Lot: 349. Estimate $150. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA. Trajan. AD 98-117. AR Tetradrachm (24mm, 9.70 g, 6h). Struck AD 112-114. Laureate and draped bust right / Cult image of Artemis Pergaia within distyle temple with eagle in pediment. Metcalf, Tell Kalak, 4; Sydenham, Caesarea 190; RPC III 4071. VF, light granularity.

Traditionally thought to be tridrachms, but more recently termed tetradrachms (see K. Butcher, “The silver coinage of Roman Arabia,” Judaea and Rome in Coins 65BCE-135 CE [London, 2012], p. 208).