399, Lot: 270. Estimate $300. Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southern. Saba'. 1st century BC - 1st century AD. AR nṣf – Unit (28mm, 5.41 g, 3h). Imitating Athens ‘New Style’ coinage. Laureate male head right within wreath / Owl standing right, head facing, on amphora; monogram and ‘cursive inscription’ to left and above, N (in South Arabian; mark of value) above tail; to right, ΛOE above royal Sabaean monogram and curved symbol of Almaqah. CAF 1.11i; Huth 279; HGC 10, 724. VF, toned.

From the Howard Simmons Collection of South Arabian Coinage.