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Tetradrachm - Anonymous Bronze, 1 Crescent
| Issuer | Lihyanite Kingdom (Northern Arabia) |
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| Year | 200 BC - 24 BC |
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| Orientation | Variable alignment ↺ |
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| Reverse lettering | ΘE |
| Edge | Plain |
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The Lihyanite kingdom, centered at Dedan in the Hejaz, operated as a successor polity to the earlier Minaean trading presence in northwestern Arabia. Their coinage is poorly understood and rarely appears in Western collections — most examples surface through the Arabian Peninsula antiquities market with little provenance documentation. The anonymous attribution reflects genuine scholarly uncertainty: no ruler's name has been securely linked to this type, and the chronological spread of nearly two centuries in the assigned date range signals how much work remains.