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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8080290, member: 128351"]Very interesting, I am presently working on Bostra coinage. I am convinced that the civic coinage of this city only started under Antoninus Pius. There is no real reason to think the Hadrian coins with "APABIA" (in Greek) holding two small figures in her arms were minted in Bostra. Among the coins found by archaeologists in excavations in the territory of Bostra, I don't know any specimen of these coins, but they are found in southern Jordan. And if you compare the style of the coins, the legends, etc. you can see they resemble much the Hadrian coins of the Petra mint. For me, these "APABIA" coins were minted in Petra, not Bostra. </p><p>There are a lot of coins, not all cleaned, that were found in Bostra excavations in the 1990s and 2000s, but they are not published yet. They must be kept in some archaeological storage in Bostra or Deraa, but since 2011 nobody can see them... In better days, there may be studied and published. There are also hundreds of coins from the Umm al-Jimal excavations in Jordan (it was in the territory of Bostra) but very few of these coins have been published for the moment.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8080290, member: 128351"]Very interesting, I am presently working on Bostra coinage. I am convinced that the civic coinage of this city only started under Antoninus Pius. There is no real reason to think the Hadrian coins with "APABIA" (in Greek) holding two small figures in her arms were minted in Bostra. Among the coins found by archaeologists in excavations in the territory of Bostra, I don't know any specimen of these coins, but they are found in southern Jordan. And if you compare the style of the coins, the legends, etc. you can see they resemble much the Hadrian coins of the Petra mint. For me, these "APABIA" coins were minted in Petra, not Bostra. There are a lot of coins, not all cleaned, that were found in Bostra excavations in the 1990s and 2000s, but they are not published yet. They must be kept in some archaeological storage in Bostra or Deraa, but since 2011 nobody can see them... In better days, there may be studied and published. There are also hundreds of coins from the Umm al-Jimal excavations in Jordan (it was in the territory of Bostra) but very few of these coins have been published for the moment.[/QUOTE]
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