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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8080278, member: 75937"]<img src="https://c.tenor.com/Up0UKDN2ppcAAAAC/friday-snoopy.gif" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Happy Friday, everybody! Today I'll be writing about a Roman provincial city, the city of Bostra in Arabia Petraea.</p><p><br /></p><p>Bostra, the modern Buṣrā al-Shām, is a ruined Syrian city, 67 miles (108 km) south of Damascus. First a Nabataean city, it was conquered by Trajan, who made it the capital of the Roman province of Arabia in AD 106, and it served as a key Roman fortress east of the Jordan River. The city eventually achieved the title metropolis under the Roman emperor Philip I "the Arab," who was a native of the city.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402900[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Considerable ruins still stand at the site, which has been declared a <a href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/22" rel="nofollow">World Heritage Center</a> by the United Nations.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402901[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1402902[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The earliest coins which can with certainty be assigned to Bostra are of Antoninus Pius; but it is generally supposed that the coins of Hadrian, with the bust of Arabia holding two small figures in her arms, were struck at this mint.[1] Moreover, the coins of Trajan, Hadrian, Diva Faustina I, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus with the name "Nicopolis" formerly ascribed to Emmaus by such numismatists as G.F. Hill[2] and David Sear[3] have now been shown to belong to Bostra or Nicopolis ad Lycum in Armenia Minor.[4]</p><p><br /></p><p>I recently purchased two coins of Faustina I of Bostra and I'd like to share them for this week's installment of Faustina Friday.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1403978[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina I, AD 138-140.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Roman provincial Æ quadrans 15.4 mm, 2.13 g, 6 h.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Arabia Petraea, Bostra, after AD 141.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Obv: ΘЄΑ ΦΑVϹΤ, veiled and draped bust, right.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Rev: <u>NT</u> BO, three ears of barley bound together; all within wreath.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Refs: RPC IV.3, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6365" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6365" rel="nofollow">6365 (temporary)</a>; Sear 1538 (as Nicopolis-Emmaus); BMC 27.169, 2 (as Nicopolis-Emmaus); Rosenberger 11-12; Spijkerman 15; Kindler 11; SNG ANS 1183-85.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1404025[/ATTACH]</p><blockquote><p><font size="3">Faustina I, AD 138-140.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Roman provincial Æ quadrans, 16.6 mm, 3.60 g, 6 h.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Arabia Petraea, Bostra, after AD 141.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Obv: ΘЄΑ ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ, veiled and draped bust, right. </font></p><p><font size="3"> Rev: ΤVΧΗ ΝЄΑϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗ ΒΟϹΤΡΑ, turreted Tyche standing facing, head left, holding spear, resting left hand on hip, and resting foot on swimming river-god.</font></p><p><font size="3"> Refs: RPC IV.3, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6702" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6702" rel="nofollow">6702 (temporary)</a>; BMC 28.27, 7-9; Spijkerman 11; Kindler 8b; Rosenberger 8.</font></p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>These are fun little coins. Typically crude and off-center, these are very difficult to find with complete, legible inscriptions, as the examples at RPC online demonstrate.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>Do you have any coins of Bostra? Post anything you feel is relevant!</i></p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Notes</b></p><p><br /></p><p>1. Hill, George Francis. <i>Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia</i>. British Museum, 1922, pp. xxiv-xxv; p. 14.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. Hill, George Francis. <i>Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Palestine</i>. British Museum, 1914, pp. lxxx-lxxxi; p. 169, nos 1-2.</p><p><br /></p><p>3. Sear, David R. <i>Greek Imperial Coins and Their Values: The Local Coinages of the Roman Empire</i>. Seaby, 1991, p. 143, no. 1538.</p><p><br /></p><p>4. See note 1, p. 223 in Eck, Werner, and Dirk Kossmann. "Emmaus Nikopolis: Die Städtische Münzprägung Unter Elagabal Und Angebliche Inschriften Für Diesen Kaiser." <i>Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik</i>, vol. 198, 2016, pp. 223–238.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 8080278, member: 75937"][IMG]https://c.tenor.com/Up0UKDN2ppcAAAAC/friday-snoopy.gif[/IMG] Happy Friday, everybody! Today I'll be writing about a Roman provincial city, the city of Bostra in Arabia Petraea. Bostra, the modern Buṣrā al-Shām, is a ruined Syrian city, 67 miles (108 km) south of Damascus. First a Nabataean city, it was conquered by Trajan, who made it the capital of the Roman province of Arabia in AD 106, and it served as a key Roman fortress east of the Jordan River. The city eventually achieved the title metropolis under the Roman emperor Philip I "the Arab," who was a native of the city. [ATTACH=full]1402900[/ATTACH] Considerable ruins still stand at the site, which has been declared a [URL='http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/22']World Heritage Center[/URL] by the United Nations. [ATTACH=full]1402901[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1402902[/ATTACH] The earliest coins which can with certainty be assigned to Bostra are of Antoninus Pius; but it is generally supposed that the coins of Hadrian, with the bust of Arabia holding two small figures in her arms, were struck at this mint.[1] Moreover, the coins of Trajan, Hadrian, Diva Faustina I, Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus with the name "Nicopolis" formerly ascribed to Emmaus by such numismatists as G.F. Hill[2] and David Sear[3] have now been shown to belong to Bostra or Nicopolis ad Lycum in Armenia Minor.[4] I recently purchased two coins of Faustina I of Bostra and I'd like to share them for this week's installment of Faustina Friday. [ATTACH=full]1403978[/ATTACH] [INDENT][SIZE=3]Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman provincial Æ quadrans 15.4 mm, 2.13 g, 6 h. Arabia Petraea, Bostra, after AD 141. Obv: ΘЄΑ ΦΑVϹΤ, veiled and draped bust, right. Rev: [U]NT[/U] BO, three ears of barley bound together; all within wreath. Refs: RPC IV.3, [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6365']6365 (temporary)[/URL]; Sear 1538 (as Nicopolis-Emmaus); BMC 27.169, 2 (as Nicopolis-Emmaus); Rosenberger 11-12; Spijkerman 15; Kindler 11; SNG ANS 1183-85.[/SIZE][/INDENT] [ATTACH=full]1404025[/ATTACH] [INDENT][SIZE=3]Faustina I, AD 138-140. Roman provincial Æ quadrans, 16.6 mm, 3.60 g, 6 h. Arabia Petraea, Bostra, after AD 141. Obv: ΘЄΑ ΦΑVϹΤЄΙΝΑ, veiled and draped bust, right. Rev: ΤVΧΗ ΝЄΑϹ ΤΡΑΙΑΝΗ ΒΟϹΤΡΑ, turreted Tyche standing facing, head left, holding spear, resting left hand on hip, and resting foot on swimming river-god. Refs: RPC IV.3, [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/6702']6702 (temporary)[/URL]; BMC 28.27, 7-9; Spijkerman 11; Kindler 8b; Rosenberger 8.[/SIZE][/INDENT] These are fun little coins. Typically crude and off-center, these are very difficult to find with complete, legible inscriptions, as the examples at RPC online demonstrate. [I]Do you have any coins of Bostra? Post anything you feel is relevant![/I] ~~~ [B]Notes[/B] 1. Hill, George Francis. [I]Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Arabia, Mesopotamia and Persia[/I]. British Museum, 1922, pp. xxiv-xxv; p. 14. 2. Hill, George Francis. [I]Catalogue of the Greek Coins in the British Museum: Palestine[/I]. British Museum, 1914, pp. lxxx-lxxxi; p. 169, nos 1-2. 3. Sear, David R. [I]Greek Imperial Coins and Their Values: The Local Coinages of the Roman Empire[/I]. Seaby, 1991, p. 143, no. 1538. 4. See note 1, p. 223 in Eck, Werner, and Dirk Kossmann. "Emmaus Nikopolis: Die Städtische Münzprägung Unter Elagabal Und Angebliche Inschriften Für Diesen Kaiser." [I]Zeitschrift Für Papyrologie Und Epigraphik[/I], vol. 198, 2016, pp. 223–238.[/QUOTE]
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