Large Gold Unit c. 1/4 Aureus?) - 'Amdān Bayān Yahaqbiḍ (Raydan

The Himyarite kingdom, dominant across much of what is now Yemen from roughly the first century BCE, operated within a monetary economy that borrowed heavily from South Arabian predecessors while selectively absorbing Roman weight standards — the probable quarter-aureus denomination here reflecting direct engagement with Roman trade networks through the Red Sea corridor rather than mere imitation. The ruler named in this issue, Amdān Bayān Yahaqbiḍ of the Raydan line, is attested in a handful of South Arabian inscriptions but remains poorly dated, making coins like this one among the primary evidence for his reign's chronology.