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Quinarius - Amdān Bayān Yahaqbiḍ Raydan
| Issuer | Himyarite Kingdom |
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| Year | 100-125 |
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| Weight | 1.44 g |
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| Obverse script | Ancient South Arabian |
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| Reverse description | Male head in right profile, closely derived from the obverse type, with similarly striated hair rendered in parallel lines and beaded pendant locks. The field is populated with Ancient South Arabian legend arranged around the portrait: an inscription runs along the upper arc, with additional characters distributed to the left and right of the bust and below the truncation. A star symbol appears to the lower left and a monogram or branch device to the lower right, both serving as subsidiary symbols typical of Himyarite royal coinage. |
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The Himyarite quinarius series occupies a strange position in South Arabian numismatics — technically derivative of the Roman quinarius in weight and module, yet thoroughly local in execution, produced by a kingdom that controlled the frankincense and myrrh trade routes linking the Arabian interior to Roman and Aksumite markets. Amdān Bayān Yahaqbiḍ was a Himyarite ruler of the early second century whose exact regnal dates remain debated, the South Arabian epigraphic record giving us his name but not clean chronological anchors.
The Raydan designation refers to the ancient royal palace and seat of Himyarite power near modern Ẓafār in Yemen.