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AR 1/2 Unit - Yad'ab Yanaf Qataban
| Issuer | Qatabanian Kingdom (Southern Arabia) |
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| Year | 1-201 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse description | Bare male head facing right, rendered in a schematic South Arabian style derived from Athenian prototypes. The effigy is depicted with minimal relief typical of Qatabanian coinage, with facial features summarily engraved. The field is plain, with no surrounding legend or border. The overall style reflects the local adaptation of Hellenistic iconographic conventions prevalent in southern Arabian silver coinage of the 1st–2nd centuries AD. |
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| Reverse script | Ancient South Arabian |
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Qataban was a South Arabian kingdom whose economy ran on the frankincense and myrrh trade routes connecting the Arabian interior to Mediterranean markets. These fractional silver pieces served commercial exchange along those routes, likely handling transactions too small for the full unit. The BMC attribution places this type among a tightly defined series, and Huth's numbering reflects ongoing scholarly effort to impose order on a coinage that ancient dealers and merchants clearly never standardized with much precision.