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Auction: 5003 - Ancient, Islamic, English & Foreign Coins & Comm. Medals
Lot: 133

Wazena (early 6th Century A.D.), AE, 0.91g., draped bust right , wearing headcloth with rounded ribbon behind, holding wheat stalk, Ge'ez legend l +'Hzb zydl "may this be suitable for the people", starting 11 o'clock and interrupted by bust, rev. cross crosslet with inlaid gold centre, superimposed on small cross, dividing the Ge'ez legend zwzn zngš "of Wazena, of the king", (AC 119 var.; H 70), jade green patina (a little missing on obverse), nearly very fine Estimate £ 50-60 An unrecorded arrangement of the obverse legend

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