Details
LOT 3004
Nabataea, Aretas IV AE 14mm. Circa 9/8 BC-AD 40.
Petra mint; struck circa AD 17/8-39/40. Laureate head to right; [Aramaic letter ḥēth to right?] / 'Aretas' in Aramaic within wreath. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 115; cf. CN 189. Near Very Fine.(2.01gr, 14mm, 10h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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