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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1782107, member: 42773&quot;]You&#039;ve touched on some of my other collecting interests here, and they have to do with coinage in the Near East during the 1st-century BC. Once the Seleucids lost control, a number of cultures were free to mint their own coin. I&#039;ve collected a bronze of Tyre from this period, <a href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/tyre-ae13-124-123-bc.235723/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cointalk.com/threads/tyre-ae13-124-123-bc.235723/">here</a>. And I&#039;m looking to add some pieces from Ashkelon and Judaea.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Those are tangential to the Nabataean collection, but the Nabataeans almost certainly would have used the Tyrian Shekels in commerce, as their main export facility for Arabian goods was Tyre. That might explain why they didn&#039;t bother to mint their own silver till much later. I wonder if any of the old Seleucid bronzes would have been considered legal tender in the region, after 125 BC...</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>That time period, in that century, is particularly fascinating to me because it was a real hodge-podge of coins.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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