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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1961074, member: 42773&quot;]This is earliest type of Trajan drachm from Bostra, with Arabia standing, a camel at her feet. Several sources report finding these overstruck on the Nabataean coins, but I haven&#039;t been able to hunt down any pics. I would very much like to at least see one of these examples, so I constantly scour the available offerings, but I&#039;ve come up empty-handed so far.</p><p><br /></p><p>(vcoins, Roma)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]345974[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I do own a later drachm of Trajan, but these were evidently all struck on blank flans - no overstruck pieces of this type exist, at least to my knowledge.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]345975[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>However, not all Nabataean drachms were overstruck or melted down after the assimilation of the kingdom by the Romans. In fact, stratigraphic data show they continued to circulate well into the 2nd-century. There was a certain confidence in the money that was slow to change. (Bowsher, J. 2007. Monetary Interchange in Nabataean Petra. <i>The World Of The Nabataeans. </i>pp. 337-343.)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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