Bare male head right / Owl standing right, head facing; monogram to left and right. 13mm, 2.05 grams. cf. Huth 274-5. Munro-Hayes 1.9ii; Zeno #314014.

ex-Album.

Extremely rare, with its male obverse head, this type marks the transition in South Arabia from owl imitations to a coinage bearing local images. 

The Sabaeans or Sabeans were an ancient group of South Arabians. They spoke Sabaic, one of the Old South Arabian languages. They founded the kingdom of Sabaʾ in modern-day Yemen, which is considered to be the biblical land of Sheba and the oldest and most important of the South Arabian kingdoms.