Details
LOT 2830
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 18mm. 9 BC-AD 40.
Petra mint; struck AD 20-40. Jugate busts of Aretas and Shaqilat to right; [H-F?] in Aramaic across fields / Crossed cornucopiae; legend in Aramaic between and below. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 114; cf. SNG ANS 1438-43; cf. Sofaer 67-9. Very Fine.(3.97gr, 18mm, 12h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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