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<p>[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8563465, member: 128351"]Very nice specimen ! But it was surely not minted in Bostra. These tridrachms or light tetradrachms (there is still a debate) are part of what numismatists call "Trajan's Arabian mint". There are also drachms with the same type (Arabia standing, tiny camel at feet), drachms with a two-humped bactrian camel, and some other tridrachms. </p><p>Initially numismatists attributed these coins to Caesarea of Cappadocia. The discovery of a hoard near Amman, the "Tell Kalakh hoard", full of coins like these, some Arabia drachms being even overstruck on Rabbel II Nabataean silver <i>sela'im</i>, drew new theories : this Arabian mint must have been in Bostra. This is what Kindler assumed in his "Coinage of Bostra"</p><p>But it does not fit with the style : the tridrachms like yours look too different from the drachms. Now, the new doxa is that the tridrachms or light tetradrachms were minted in Rome especially for Arabia. They were shipped to Arabia, for circulation there. Their style is obviously Roman. The drachms were minted in Antioch, and shipped to Arabia as well. Under Trajan there was no mint at all in Bostra, the first coins of Bostra are city-coins of Antoninus Pius.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1510911[/ATTACH] </p><p>Laodicaea (Lattakieh, Syria) - Trajan AE 25 mm</p><p>Obv.: [AYTOKP. NEP.] TPAIANOC APICT. [KAIC. CEB. ΓEP. ΔAK. ΠAP.] , laureate bust right</p><p>Rev.: IOYΛIEωN TωN KAI ΛAO[ΔIKEωN BΞP] , turreted bust of Tyche right</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Next : A provincial Hadrian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="GinoLR, post: 8563465, member: 128351"]Very nice specimen ! But it was surely not minted in Bostra. These tridrachms or light tetradrachms (there is still a debate) are part of what numismatists call "Trajan's Arabian mint". There are also drachms with the same type (Arabia standing, tiny camel at feet), drachms with a two-humped bactrian camel, and some other tridrachms. Initially numismatists attributed these coins to Caesarea of Cappadocia. The discovery of a hoard near Amman, the "Tell Kalakh hoard", full of coins like these, some Arabia drachms being even overstruck on Rabbel II Nabataean silver [I]sela'im[/I], drew new theories : this Arabian mint must have been in Bostra. This is what Kindler assumed in his "Coinage of Bostra" But it does not fit with the style : the tridrachms like yours look too different from the drachms. Now, the new doxa is that the tridrachms or light tetradrachms were minted in Rome especially for Arabia. They were shipped to Arabia, for circulation there. Their style is obviously Roman. The drachms were minted in Antioch, and shipped to Arabia as well. Under Trajan there was no mint at all in Bostra, the first coins of Bostra are city-coins of Antoninus Pius. [ATTACH=full]1510911[/ATTACH] Laodicaea (Lattakieh, Syria) - Trajan AE 25 mm Obv.: [AYTOKP. NEP.] TPAIANOC APICT. [KAIC. CEB. ΓEP. ΔAK. ΠAP.] , laureate bust right Rev.: IOYΛIEωN TωN KAI ΛAO[ΔIKEωN BΞP] , turreted bust of Tyche right Next : A provincial Hadrian[/QUOTE]
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