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                                55, Lot: 64. ARABIA. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. 
                                Billon or Æ Tetradrachm (13.78 gm). Estimate 
                                $300. Sold For $198 

                                ARABIA. Circa 2nd-1st Century BC. Billon or Æ 
                                Tetradrachm (13.78 gm). Crude head of Herakles 
                                right, wearing lion skin (also resembles 
                                Zeus-Ammon) / Zeus-Shamash seated left, holding 
                                horse and sceptre; tree to left, L, in left 
                                field, monogram in right field, legend behind 
                                sceptre. Arnold-Biucchi, "Arabian Alexanders", 
                                in Mnemata: Papers in honor of Nancy M. 
                                Waggoner, 25; Potts, Pre Islamic Coinage of 
                                Eastern Arabia 408. Nice VF, minor porosity. 
                                Rare. ($300)







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From cngcoins.com on-site auction number 55, closed December 18, 2002.

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