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Tetradrachm - Anonymous Bronze, 1 Crescent

Issuer Lihyanite Kingdom (Northern Arabia)
Year 200 BC - 24 BC
Type Standard circulation coin
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Reverse script Greek
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Mintage ND (200 BC - 24 BC) - Owl facing -
ND (200 BC - 24 BC) - Owl right, only head facing -
Additional information

The Lihyanite kingdom, centered at Dedan in the Hejaz, operated as a successor polity to the earlier Minaean trading presence in northwestern Arabia. Their coinage is poorly understood and rarely appears in Western collections — most examples surface through the Arabian Peninsula antiquities market with little provenance documentation. The anonymous attribution reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty: no ruler's name has been securely linked to this type, and the chronological spread of nearly two centuries in the assigned date range signals how much work remains.

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