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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2528391, member: 42773&quot;]Doug, I know you have a handful of Seleucid issues, so the Philip I may not be your first coin from Damascus. Still, it&#039;s a great find - I would have over-payed for that one in a heartbeat. It is absolutely NOT something you see everyday - funny what you can find digging around in dealers&#039; old boxes, huh?</p><p><br /></p><p>I have many coins minted in Damascus, but the two rarest come from the Nabataean king Aretas III&#039;s brief tenure as protector of the city, beginning in 82/83 BC. He minted a set of denominations in the Seleucid style, bearing his name. The larger bronzes are quite rare. The smaller one is extremely rare, mine being the third known example (Meshorer published the other two). There is only one known tetradrachm, in the BMC...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]540096[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, don&#039;t you have a bronze of Tigranes II? That would also have been minted in Damascus. Or am I thinking of someone else?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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