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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1781202, member: 42773&quot;]<font face="Times New Roman">Here’s a crusty piece that I was very happy to order today. I may decide to give it a bit of a cleaning – depends on how I like it in hand. But the legends are clearly readable, which was the most important consideration for me, so maybe I’ll leave it as-is.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s15.postimg.org/5lt39d5sr/image.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">Aretas III AE20, 7.04g</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Obv</i>.: Diademed head of Aretas III r.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><i>Rev</i>.: Tyche of Damascus turreted, seated left on rock, wearing mantle on lower part of body, holding cornucopiae in left hand, extending right hand, river god of Chrysorrhoas River swimming below (off flan); in field, in three vertical lines, the inscription ΒΑΣΙΛΣ(ΩΕ)/ΑΡΕΤΟ(Υ)/ΦΙΛΕΛΛΗΝ(ΟΣ), last word divided by hand of Tyche into ΦΙΛ ΕΛΛΗΝ(ΟΣ). Meshorer 6A</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">The inscription translates: KING ARETAS PHILHELLEN. It’s the first time a Nabataean king puts his name on a coin, and that marks the beginning of Nabataean coinage that can be accurately attributed.</font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I’ll post more about the coin and Aretas III later.</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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