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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1677571, member: 42773"]The problem with attributing my coin as a <i>bona fide</i> Nabataean quarter resides in the fact that an earlier issue (Meshorer 115) was of the same type, only it had Aretas' monogram (HRTT) on the reverse instead of a denomination. Here is a picture of that reverse on a coin that's not in my collection...</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://s13.postimg.org/ur1vnnt6f/115r.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but I don't see any of the letters HRTT on the reverse of my coin. What I can make out of the inscription comes quite close to the word for quarter. I only wish it was just a <u>little</u> more distinct...</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/523x4c46l/wreathr.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, both types are rare, and the condition of the obverse on this coin is particularly good for a Nabataean, so I'm quite pleased to add it to my collection.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 1677571, member: 42773"]The problem with attributing my coin as a [I]bona fide[/I] Nabataean quarter resides in the fact that an earlier issue (Meshorer 115) was of the same type, only it had Aretas' monogram (HRTT) on the reverse instead of a denomination. Here is a picture of that reverse on a coin that's not in my collection... [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s13.postimg.org/ur1vnnt6f/115r.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but I don't see any of the letters HRTT on the reverse of my coin. What I can make out of the inscription comes quite close to the word for quarter. I only wish it was just a [U]little[/U] more distinct... [CENTER][URL="http://postimage.org/"][IMG]http://s4.postimg.org/523x4c46l/wreathr.jpg[/IMG][/URL] [/CENTER] At any rate, both types are rare, and the condition of the obverse on this coin is particularly good for a Nabataean, so I'm quite pleased to add it to my collection.[/QUOTE]
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