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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1782224, member: 42773&quot;]I spoke today with Daniel Wolf, the author of the <a href="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ptolemybronze.com/" rel="nofollow">The PtolemAE Project</a> and a leading authority on Ptolemaic bronzes. He suggested that the undertype to coin 1 (above) may be Svoronos 417, 969, or 970, but there isn&#039;t enough of the host coin&#039;s details to make an accurate assessment. At any rate, it belongs to an issue of Ptolemy II or III, as bronzes of Ptolemy 1 do not exhibit the center dimple.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>He also informs me that most of the Proto-Nabataean overstrikes are on host coins minted in Alexandria, as opposed to Tyre. This is a curious factoid, but it makes a certain amount of sense. According to Dan Gibson, a leading Nabataean historian, the Nabataeans had extensive trades routes through the Northern Sinai Peninsula and Egypt by the middle of the 3rd-century BC. It wouldn&#039;t have been difficult for them to acquire coins minted in Alexandria.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s24.postimg.org/tozoqkwv9/nabataeantraderoutes.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>They did not move further north, into the region of Tyre and Damascus, until they lost their port in Gaza to Jewish control in the 1st-century BC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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