Details
LOT 3320
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 13mm. Struck circa AD 17/8-39/40. Petra mint.
Aretas in military dress, standing to left, holding spear and scabbard; palm branch to left, het in Nabataean in upper right field / Shaqilat, veiled and wearing Isis-headdress, standing to left, raising hand, wreath in left field, 'Shuqailat' in Nabataean in three lines in right field. Meshorer, Nabataea 97; CN Type 187d. Near Very Fine.(2.07gr, 13mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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