Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 979. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $875. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NABATAEA. Aretas IV, with Shaqilat. 9 BC-AD 40. AR Drachm (4.04 g, 12h). Dated RY 32(?) (AD 23). Laureate, diademed, and draped bust of Aretas IV right / Veiled and draped bust of Shaqilat right; date behind. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 102 (jugate bust rev. type); SNG Copenhagen -; Schmitt-Korte, “Nabataean Coinage–Part II. New Coin Types and Variants,” NC 1990, 77 var. (RY 33). Good VF, toned. Unpublished variety.