Watch List notes:

ARABIA, Eastern. Oman Peninsula. Mleiha or ad-Dur (?). Later coinage in the name of Abi'el, 1st century BCE to 1st century CE. Drachm (Billon, 16 mm, 3.56 g, 5 h), imitating Alexander 'the Great' (336-323 BCE). Stylized head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress. Rev. 𐡀𐡁𐡀𐡋 ('b'l' in Aramaic) Male figure seated left on low throne, holding long scepter in his left hand and a horse on his right arm; to left, palm stem; to left, below right arm, anchor-like symbol (of Mleiha?) placed sidewise. Arnold-Biucchi 26. CCK 133 = Haerink, Abiel, 80 = van Alfen 158d (this coin, O4/R4). Potts (Suppl.) 317 ff. An exceptionally sharp and fresh example. Small cut on the obverse and with a die break on the reverse, otherwise, good extremely fine.


From the collection of Ambassador Martin Huth.