CNG 96, Lot: 585. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Eastern. Ikaros/Failaka. Circa 222-204 BC. AR Tetradrachm (25mm, 16.25 g, 9h). Imitating the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin / Shams seated left on backless throne, holding eagle and staff; W (shin in Arabic, horizontally oriented) in left field. Huth 104–5; Arnold-Biucchi, Arabian B; Price 3957; HGC 10, 704. VF, lightly toned.