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Silver Drachm - Anonymous

Issuer Sabaean Kingdom (Southern Arabia)
Year 160 BC - 130 BC
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Reference(s) HGC 10#725
Obverse description Laureate male head with long flowing hair facing right, rendered in the style derived from Athenian coinage. The effigy is set within a wreath border, with the laurel wreath framing the portrait in the field. The die work is characteristic of South Arabian imitative coinage, with somewhat stylized facial features adapted from Greek prototypes.
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Reverse description Athena's owl standing right atop an amphora, rendered in the South Arabian imitative tradition derived from Athenian tetradrachm types. Two South Arabian monograms occupy the left and right fields flanking the owl. The reverse is anepigraphic, bearing no inscribed legend, and the overall composition closely follows the Athenian 'new style' owl coinage while incorporating distinctly local epigraphic elements.
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