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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2060216, member: 42773&quot;]Nice coin. These are the most common of Nabataean issues and can be found in reasonably acceptable grades. You&#039;ll notice some letters on the obverse. The letter shin is in front of the Queen, for Shuqailat, and the letter heth behind the king, for Haratat (Aretas). They&#039;re quite worn on your coin, but there are also letters above the queen&#039;s head, shin-lamedh-mem, indicating the denomination half. Finding these letters is tough - here&#039;s an example from my collection...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]379792[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The inscription on the reverse is the name of the king and queen. Nabataean is read from right to left. The top line is heth-resh-taw-taw (Haratat), and the queen&#039;s name is broken into two lines: shin-kaph-yodh between the cornucopias, lamedh-taw underneath (Shaqilat). </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been working on a website dedicated to Nabataean numismatics. You can find it <a href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/index.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/index.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. I&#039;ve just started this project, however, and have not gotten to these issues yet.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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