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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 25312621, member: 128351&quot;]These Jewish overstrikes are extremely interesting. A great number of these Jewish <i>zuzim</i> are overstruck on Nabataean drachms, Trajanic Arabia-drachms or Roman denarii.</p><p>Trajanic Arabia-drachms and camel-drachms were already overstruck on Nabataean Rabbel II silver coins, and minted in Antioch (Arabia-drachms) or in Rome (camel-drachms) for circulation in Arabia only. They contained the same silver proportion as Nabataean drachms and were obviously the continuation under Roman rule of the Nabataean monetary system. Trajanic Roman denarii contained much more silver, thus we could expect they would have had an higher value than Rabbel II drachms or Trajanic Arabia-drachms.</p><p>But it was not the case. Arabia-drachms and Roman denarii are found together in excavations, sometimes stuck together, which means they were kept together in some purse. At first glance it was difficult to distinguish Arabia-drachms from Arabia-denarii of Trajan, many people over 45 who could not focus could not tell if the legend was Latin or Greek, the only difference...</p><p>The Jews did not make any distinction and produced the same <i>zuzim</i> overstriking Arabia-drachms, Rabbel II drachms and Roman denarii of Domitian, Trajan, Hadrian... Nobody considered the silver quantity important or signifiant. The Nabataean currency, considered equivalent to Roman denarii though it contained more than 25% less silver, was thus officially overvalued in Arabia and Judaea. But it did not circulate outside these provinces.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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