Watch List notes:

Kingdom of Axum, Wazena (Ella Gabaz) Æ Unit. Circa AD 550-570. Draped bust to right, wearing headcloth, holding wheat stalk, crescent in inner right field; Ge'ez legend "may this please the peoples" around / Cross crosslet crossed by oblique cross; Ge'ez legend "of Wazena, of the King" around. Hahn & Keck 76; Munro-Hay 429; SACAM 388 ff. var. (no examples of crescent to right). 1.44g, 17mm, 3h.

Very Fine.

From the collection of P.R.B. (France), formed c. 1960-2000.