

Nuqud Gallery
Eastern Arabia, Mleiha: in name of Abi'el, billon/bronze tetradrachm (15.89g), Mleiha (Maleha, Sharjah) mint, 100 BCE-200 CE. Crude imitation of the coinage of Alexander III the Great. Head of Herakles, wearing lion skin, pellet on cheek / Figure seated,
Eastern Arabia, Mleiha: in name of Abi'el, billon/bronze tetradrachm (15.89g), Mleiha (Maleha, Sharjah) mint, 100 BCE-200 CE. Crude imitation of the coinage of Alexander III the Great. Head of Herakles, wearing lion skin, pellet on cheek / Figure seated, holding scepter, horse standing on arm, palm tree and trident (symbol of Mleiha?) in left field, "'Abi'el" in crude form of Aramaic in right field.