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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1779677, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;ve added a third tessera to this set today. This one is Hoover Group B. Obv.: Head of Nabataean ruler (Obodas III?) r., with hair in cascading rows of curls; dotted border. Rev.: Winged Nike standing left.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s22.postimg.org/hvt71x4tt/lead7a1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The image of Nike is all but worn away, but the bust is fairly decent for a two thousand year-old lead coin. It&#039;s almost as good as any bust in Hoover&#039;s plates, for example...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s7.postimg.org/rf6h75le3/lead7a.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I won&#039;t go into excruciating detail, but this type of &quot;archaic&quot; bust can be linked to portraits of Obodas III (30 - 9 BC). The last time we see this type of bust in the bronze coins is in 4 BC, under the early reign of Aretas IV. So it&#039;s tempting to date this tessera to somewhere between 30 BC and 4 BC, but it hasn&#039;t been established that the lead pieces are related to the bronze typology at all, so any attempt at narrow dating is suspect.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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