Details
LOT 3313
Nabataea, Aretas IV, with Shaqilat AE 19mm. Struck AD 20-40. Petra mint.
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. Near Very Fine.(3.54gr, 19mm, 1h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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