Tetradrachm

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背面描述	Owl of Athena standing right with head facing front, rendered in a simplified imitative style. To the left, a fused or degenerate olive spray and crescent symbol — both characteristic elements of Athenian prototype coinage — are combined into a single device. The ethnic inscription AΘE appears to the right of the owl. The entire design is set within a shallow circular incuse square, as is typical of Arabian imitations of Athenian tetradrachms.
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背面铭文	AΘE
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附加信息	The Minaean Kingdom, centered in the Ma'in region of what is now northern Yemen, was primarily a trading state whose wealth derived from controlling overland incense routes connecting southern Arabia to the Mediterranean. Their coinage borrowed heavily from Athenian weight standards and owl types, a deliberate commercial choice meant to facilitate exchange with Greek-sphere merchants who trusted the familiar Attic format. It is less a local artistic expression than a trade credential. Precise attribution within the Minaean series remains difficult — inscriptions naming individual rulers are inconsistently applied, and die studies are incomplete relative to comparable Hellenistic series.

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