Denarius

The Sabaean kingdom, centered on the ancient city of Ma'rib in what is now Yemen, produced coinage heavily influenced by Athenian prototypes — a borrowing that persisted for centuries after the original Attic owl types had ceased to circulate in the Mediterranean. By the first and second centuries AD, these issues had diverged substantially from their Greek models, the stylistic drift accumulated across generations of local die-cutters working far from any Hellenistic mint tradition.

The SNG ANS 6 parallels at 1554–6 document the tight clustering of this variety within a recognizable but evolving series.