Arabia, Kingdom of Hagar, Abyatha AR Drachm. Dumat al-Jandal(?), circa 220-204 BC. Imitating Alexander III 'the Great' of Macedon. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Beardless male figure, sporting contemporary Arabian hairstyle, enthroned to left, legs crossed resting footstool, holding long sceptre in left hand and reed or pipe from which he appears to smoke in his right; 'a' in South Arabian in left field, ''byt'', denoting Abayatha in South Arabian, in right field. Arnold-Biucchi 9; CCK 116; Mørkholm, Failaka, 11-16; Potts 2; HGC 10, 694. 3.97g, 18mm, 8h.
Very Fine. Extremely Rare; one of just eleven known examples.