Extremely Rare – CAF Plate Coin
399, Lot: 283. Estimate $100. Sold for $260. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ARABIA, Southern. Saba'. 2nd–3rd centuries AD. AR Fraction (8.5mm, 0.37 g, 4h). Scyphate type. Curved symbol of
Almaqah and monogram / Facing boukranion; disc-crescent of
Dhat-Hamim above, symbol of
Athtar to left, curved symbol of
Almaqah to right. CAF 2.18biv, pl. V, 152 = S. Munro-Hay, “Coins of Ancient South Arabia” in
NC 154 (1994), 176 (this coin); Huth –; SNG ANS –. Good VF, toned.
From the Howard Simmons Collection of South Arabian Coinage. Ex ‘Bombay’ Collection.