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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24648204, member: 128351&quot;]It may have been the case in some provinces.</p><p>In Jordan, Palestinian territories and Israel for example, Arabia-drachms of Trajan are found in hoards mixed with denarii. In Petra, archaeologists found 3 coins stuck together : 2 trajanic Arabia-drachms and 1 denarius of Trajan. Before eyeglasses were invented, I don&#039;t think many people over 50 or 60 could distinguish an Arabia drachm from an Arabia Adquisita denarius of Trajan.</p><p>During the Bar Kochba war, under Hadrian, Jewish rebels overstruck Arabia drachms and Rome-minted denarii to mint their own drachms. This is absolute evidence that these two kinds of coins had the same value for them.</p><p><br /></p><p>Arabia drachms (or later camel-drachms) have never been found anywhere else than in the Judaea and Arabia provinces. I think these coins, whose silver content was only 70% of a denarius, were minted in Antioch and later in Rome especially for Arabia, and were accepted in this province, and probably in Judaea too, for the equivalent of Roman denarii. But not in other provinces![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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