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Tetradrachm - Anonymous Silver, 1 Crescent
| Issuer | Lihyanite Kingdom (Northern Arabia) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 24 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse script | Greek |
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| Edge | Plain |
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The Lihyanite kingdom, centered at Dedan in the Hejaz, controlled caravan routes linking southern Arabia to the Levant and Egypt — a position that made Athenian-style silver coinage both practically useful and politically legible to trading partners. These anonymous issues, distinguished from one another by small control marks like the crescent, were not minted under a named ruler, which is itself historically telling: Lihyan's political structure remains poorly understood, and the coinage reflects that opacity. The crescent differentiator catalogued by Huth suggests a controlled emission system, though the administrative logic behind it has not been recovered from the epigraphic record.