Drachm

Beschrijving voorzijde	Helmeted head of Athena facing left in archaic style, rendered with a schematic frontal eye characteristic of Arabian imitations of Athenian coinage; two upward-pointing crescents adorn the cheek, a local artistic addition distinguishing Lihyanite issues from their Athenian prototypes. The die work is bold but simplified, reflecting provincial hammered craftsmanship. The overall style is a stylized, abstracted adaptation of the classical Athenian type.
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Aanvullende informatie	The Lihyanites, centered at Dedan in what is now northwestern Saudi Arabia, operated as a caravan state controlling trade routes between Arabia and the Levant. Their coinage is poorly documented and rarely surfaces in Western collections, leaving attribution of individual pieces genuinely contested among specialists. The kingdom's chronology itself remains unresolved — some scholars compress its independent phase into a single century, others extend it considerably further. Bronze issues of this type circulated in a region where South Arabian and Aramaic monetary influences overlapped, producing a numismatic record that fits no clean regional typology.