AR 1/2 Unit - Yad'ab Yanaf Qataban

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.