CAF Plate Coin

419, Lot: 224. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Southern. Himyar. Uncertain king(s). Circa 110 BC–mid 1st century BC. AR Fraction (8.5mm, 0.26 g, 12h). Raydan mint. Diademed head right; N (in South Arabian)(?) to right / Small head right. CAF 3.19iii, pl. VII, 201 = S. Munro-Hay, “Coins of Ancient South Arabia” in NC 154 (1994), 310 (this coin); Huth 398–400; SNG ANS –. VF, toned. Extremely rare.

From the South Arabian Collection of Howard Simmons.