Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 701. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ARABIA, Uncertain. 2nd century BC. AR Tetradrachm (16.13 gm, 3h). Degraded head of Herakles right(?) / Figure seated right, holding sceptre and bird; reversed swastika in right field, uncertain symbol or letter to left. Potts -; cf. Gemini 1, lot 258 (reverse). VF, a couple small patches of horn silver on obverse, softly struck. Unpublished. ($750)

This, and the previous, coins are part of a small group of imitative coins that has recently appeared on the market (see Gemini 1, lots 258-260, for the others). Their obverse and reverse types appear to copy either Alexandrine or Seleukid prototypes, but their overall style and certain attributes defy certain placement into any of the known series in Arabia, or those farther east.