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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 24562328, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1556429[/ATTACH] </p><p>Trajan, quadrans</p><p>Obv.: IMP CAES TRAIAN AVG GERM, bust of Hercules lauretate wearing lion-skin, right</p><p>Rev.: boar walking right, exergue S C.</p><p><br /></p><p>A very interesting issue. I would very much like to know if there have been examples of this quadrans found in Europe. </p><p><br /></p><p>This quadrans can be found in Israel, Palestinian territories, Jordan and South Syria. There are many excavation reports, in these countries, mentioning this coin among those found in the digs. There were even smaller local imitations minted. But I could not find any mention of it in archaeological reports from other countries. In UK, there is the PAS database : all the Trajanic quadrantes found in UK with Hercules&#039; bust are another emission, with a club on reverse. </p><p><br /></p><p>I am wondering if this quadrans, with the boar on reverse, was a special emission of the Rome mint for circulation in Arabia after 106 AD, because it is the equivalent of the AE coins of the last Nabataean king Rabbel II. </p><p><br /></p><p>Next up: boar[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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