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55, Lot: 64. Estimate $300.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. Billon or Æ Tetradrachm (13.78 gm). Crude head of Herakles right, wearing lion skin (also resembles Zeus-Ammon) / Zeus-Shamash seated left, holding horse and sceptre; tree to left, L, in left field, monogram in right field, legend behind sceptre. Arnold-Biucchi, "Arabian Alexanders", in Mnemata: Papers in honor of Nancy M. Waggoner, 25; Potts, Pre Islamic Coinage of Eastern Arabia 408. Nice VF, minor porosity. Rare. ($300)