Reverse design in incuse // Owl standing to right, head facing; olive spray and crescent to left, AΘE to right; additional monogram to the right of the owl. 12mm, 0.39 grams. Cf. Zeno 54143 or similar.

ex-Album.

Imitating the Athenian owl coinage, showing their familiarity with the popular Mediterranean coinage.

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.