Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4550439, member: 110350&quot;]Trajan AR Drachm, 115-Feb. 116 AD, Arabia Bostra (or Rome*) Mint. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan right, with paludamentum, seen from rear, AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANѠ APICTѠ CƐB ΓƐPM ΔAK [<i>equivalent of&nbsp; IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC</i>] / Rev. Bactrian (two-humped) camel, walking left, ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠATO ς [<i>equivalent of TR P COS VI (sixth consulship)</i>]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 4076 (2015); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&amp;number=4076" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&amp;number=4076" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&amp;number=4076</a>, SNG ANS VI 1158; Sydenham 205 [E. Sydenham, <i>The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia </i>(1933)].&nbsp; 19 mm., 3.10 g.&nbsp; <i>Ex: Kenneth W. Dorney</i>. (<i>Coin is double die match to Roma Numismatics Auction, May 21, 2013, Lot 767 [<a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=474&amp;lot=767];" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=474&amp;lot=767];" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=474&amp;lot=767];</a> image of that coin is reproduced as Plate 14, No. 7 in Woytek &amp; Butcher article cited in note below.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>* See Bernhard E. Woytek and Kevin Butcher, <i>The Camel Drachms of Trajan in Context: Old Problems and a New Overstrike</i>, The Numismatic Chronicle Vol. 175 (2015), pp. 117-136 (<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/43859784</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1126501[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Next: another coin from Arabia Bostra.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in