Arabia, Gerrha AR Tetradrachm. Imitating the types of Alexander III of Macedon. Circa 3rd-2nd centuries BC. Head of Herakles to right, wearing lion skin headdress / Zeus Aëtophoros seated to left on backless throne, holding sceptre; AΛEΞANΔPOY to right, Arabian šin, vertically oriented, in left field. Price 3958; Müller -; Huth 111; HGC 10, 696 (R1 - same dies as illustration); CNG 99, 371 (hammer: USD 1,800). 16.04g, 28mm, 2h.
Good Very Fine. Extremely Rare; seemingly the first specimen to come to auction in the past five years and just the fourth in the past twenty.
From a private European collection.