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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1782139, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;ll add one more post, just because I&#039;m bored.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>This one coin of Aretas III is the only coin officially attributed to him that I expect to collect. I may add more of this type to my collection - it would be nice to find a less crusty specimen, but the other bronze types in his series, Me 5 and 7 are exceedingly rare. The only extant examples are in museums. The silver type, Me 8 is unique.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>I do, however, want to collect the Scaurus denarius that commemorates Aretas&#039; &quot;defeat&quot; at the hand of the Romans, because that coin is directly related to Nabataean history.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The next Nabataean king on my list is Obodas II, but in <i>Coins of the Caravan Kingdoms,</i> Martin Huth makes a compelling argument that there was no such king, and that all the coins Meshorer attributed to Obodas II should belong to Obodas III, who should really be called Obodas II. Got it? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>So really I should be looking at Malichus I, whose coins aren&#039;t really rare, but scarce enough to make them worth a bundle of scratch. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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