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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1671609, member: 42773&quot;]I don&#039;t have much to contribute here, but I will offer this one Nabataean bronze, which is typical of the issues of Aretas IV. The dies were clearly round, and occasionally you get a round coin, but this sort of shape is far more common...</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s8.postimg.org/80pa46wb9/aretas.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I think it&#039;s logical to assume that their flan production technique consisted of rolling out a strip of bronze, then cutting it up with a circular punch whose diameter was larger than the width of the strip. This would account for so many of the pieces having both square and rounded edges...</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s14.postimg.org/adxo14vgt/shape.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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