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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1677570, member: 42773"]I've decided rather than post a thread about every new Nabataean acquisition, I would just post one thread for every king, since there are so few, and add new coins to it as I go along.</p><p><br /></p><p>Most Nabataean coinage was issued by Aretas IV. An excellent summary of his reign comes from the Jewish Dictionary, which is in the public domain, so I'll quote the entire passage...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And an interesting side-note from the same source...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This is my most recent acquisition of Aretas IV. On the whole, it presents some attractive features despite the weak reverse. The coin is struck on a round flan and the devices are well-centered. The piece is worth owning for the strong portrait in and of itself.</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://s15.postimg.org/fiyezszbf/wreath.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>But the reverse, despite its wear, suggests it may be a very important piece in the history of coinage. The Nabataeans were the first minters in history to put denominations on their coins. Consider the following extract from Jerzy Ciecielag's <i>Coins of Aretas IV, King of Nabataeans:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i><br /></i></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://s21.postimg.org/5l1impz2v/cie1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>He goes on to describe two types, and arrives at a third, which I believe is the coin that I've acquired in this post...</p><p><br /></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://s21.postimg.org/szna3vl5j/cie2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>Ciecielag uses the modern Hebrew equivalents of the Aramaic Nabataean alphabet. The spelling of "quarter" in Nabataean (RVA) looks like this...</p><p><br /></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://s4.postimg.org/6s4kmus6l/quarter.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>More in the next post...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1677570, member: 42773"]I've decided rather than post a thread about every new Nabataean acquisition, I would just post one thread for every king, since there are so few, and add new coins to it as I go along. Most Nabataean coinage was issued by Aretas IV. An excellent summary of his reign comes from the Jewish Dictionary, which is in the public domain, so I'll quote the entire passage... And an interesting side-note from the same source... This is my most recent acquisition of Aretas IV. On the whole, it presents some attractive features despite the weak reverse. The coin is struck on a round flan and the devices are well-centered. The piece is worth owning for the strong portrait in and of itself. [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s15.postimg.org/fiyezszbf/wreath.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] But the reverse, despite its wear, suggests it may be a very important piece in the history of coinage. The Nabataeans were the first minters in history to put denominations on their coins. Consider the following extract from Jerzy Ciecielag's [I]Coins of Aretas IV, King of Nabataeans: [/I] [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s21.postimg.org/5l1impz2v/cie1.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] He goes on to describe two types, and arrives at a third, which I believe is the coin that I've acquired in this post... [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s21.postimg.org/szna3vl5j/cie2.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] Ciecielag uses the modern Hebrew equivalents of the Aramaic Nabataean alphabet. The spelling of "quarter" in Nabataean (RVA) looks like this... [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s4.postimg.org/6s4kmus6l/quarter.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] More in the next post...[/QUOTE]
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