Drachm - Anonymous

The Lihyanite kingdom, centered at Dedan in the Hejaz, occupied a stretch of the incense and spice routes that made it briefly prosperous and largely forgotten by later historians. These anonymous drachms are struck in direct imitation of Athenian types, a common enough practice across the ancient Near East during the fourth and third centuries, but the Lihyanite versions are distinguished by their crude local re-engraving — the product of artisans working from coins rather than from trained die-cutters. Huth's classification remains the primary reference because the series has attracted so little dedicated scholarship.