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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsman, post: 3588820, member: 99177&quot;]It looks like fun to me to see how many different enemies of Rome we can find on ancient coins <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>I found this article by Robin Levin that answered &#039;in a nutshell&#039; the question what countries were considered as Rome’s greatest enemies.</p><p>Here is the link</p><p><a href="https://www.quora.com/What-countries-were-considered-as-Rome-s-greatest-enemies" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.quora.com/What-countries-were-considered-as-Rome-s-greatest-enemies" rel="nofollow">https://www.quora.com/What-countries-were-considered-as-Rome-s-greatest-enemies</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I am probably not allowed to copy-paste the complete article in this post (due to copyrights) so I wrote down all the enemies that are mentioned in this article.</p><p>Of course we can argue about the list, but my guess is that most &#039;big enemies&#039; are on it. Please add enemies that are not on the list.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is the list:</p><ol> <li>Latins</li> <li>Sabines</li> <li>Etruscans</li> <li>Samnites <br /> </li> <li>Gauls <br /> </li> <li>Pyrrhus of Epirus <br /> </li> <li>Carthage <br /> </li> <li>Seleucid Kingdom</li> <li>Macedonia</li> <li>Numidians (king Juba)</li> <li>Pontus (king Mithridates)<br /> </li> <li>Tribes living in Italy (Samnites and Marsi)<br /> </li> <li>Slave rebellion lead by Spartacus<br /> </li> <li>Pirates in the Mediterranean (Pompey)<br /> </li> <li>Parthians (Crassus, Marc Anthony....)</li> <li>Civil wars: Marius versus Sulla</li> <li>Civil wars: Pompey versus Sertorius</li> <li>Civil wars: Caesar versus Pompey</li> <li>Civil wars: Octavian and Marc Anthony versus the assassins of Caesar</li> <li>Civil wars: Octavian versus Marc Anthony <br /> </li> <li>German barbarians (Teutoburg Forest)<br /> </li> <li>Celts (Rebellion Boudicca)<br /> </li> <li>Judea <br /> </li> <li>Dacians</li> <li>Persians <br /> </li> <li>Muslim Saracens <br /> </li> <li><b>Nabataean kingdom </b>(my attribution)<br /> </li> <li>etc.<br /> </li> <li>etc.</li> <li>etc.</li> </ol><p>I was surprised to find out that I had quite a few Roman enemies on my coins. This is the one I chose. Love this coin cause of the link with the beautiful city of Petra.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]958710[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Aretas, denarius</p><p>M. Aemilius Scaurus &amp; Pub. Plautius Hypsaeus. 58 BC.</p><p>19mm, 3,99g.</p><p>Obv. M SCAVR AED CVR EX S C; King Aretas III of Nabatea kneeling beside camel in an attitude of supplication, holding olive-branch.</p><p>Rev. P HVPSAEVS AED CVR CAPTV C HVPSAE COS PREIVER; Jupiter in quadriga left, holding thunderbolt.</p><p>Cr422/1a</p><p><br /></p><p>So my attribution to the list of enemies is:</p><p><br /></p><p><b>27. Nabataean kingdom </b>(king Aretas III)</p><p>Note: This never turned into a big fight cause the king paid &#039;several hundred talents of silver&#039; and recognition of Roman supremacy over Nabatea in exchange for peace with the Romans. So at the end this was not a &#039;big enemy&#039;.......</p><p><br /></p><p>I am very curious to see how many coins we can find with enemies that are on the list and others that are not on the list......</p><p><br /></p><p>Please name the enemy and the number on the list and show a coin with the enemy in person on it <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Maybe this is turning into one big chaos, but who cares <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie50" alt=":happy:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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