Lot 920
920
Gold. 1.80g., draped, half-length bust right, wearing crown and holding spear in right hand, between two stalks of wheat, disc and crescent flanked by dots above, HZANAC B-ACIYC, rev. bust as obverse but wearing headcloth and holding branch or fly-whisk (?), AMITWN BICIA'NE, 'of the Aksumites, man of Alene' (AC type 36; BMC 52; H 17), good very fine, rare
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Gold. 1.80g., draped, half-length bust right, wearing crown and holding spear in right hand, between two stalks of wheat, disc and crescent flanked by dots above, HZANAC B-ACIYC, rev. bust as obverse but wearing headcloth and holding branch or fly-whisk (?), AMITWN BICIA'NE, 'of the Aksumites, man of Alene' (AC type 36; BMC 52; H 17), good very fine, rare

Details
Gold. 1.80g., draped, half-length bust right, wearing crown and holding spear in right hand, between two stalks of wheat, disc and crescent flanked by dots above, HZANAC B-ACIYC, rev. bust as obverse but wearing headcloth and holding branch or fly-whisk (?), AMITWN BICIA'NE, 'of the Aksumites, man of Alene' (AC type 36; BMC 52; H 17), good very fine, rare
Provenance
F Sternberg auction XVIII, 20 November 1986, lot 223
Special notice
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