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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 24494810, member: 87809&quot;]and now I have one.</p><p><br /></p><p>Part of the legends are off-flan and the reverse is off-center. Most of you have much better ones, but I do love the camel and Aretas III kneeling&nbsp; in the attitude of supplication, and the scorpion on the reverse <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>This issue was put in circulation in 58 BC. Two years later, in 56 BC, the obverse design was imitated by Faustus Cornelius Sulla on his denarii showing Bocchus of Mauritania delivering Jugurtha handcuffed to the then young quaestor Sulla. The year after, in 55 BC, it was imitated by Aulus Plautius who&nbsp; copied the Aretas obverse with the camel, but with the legend Bacchius Iudaeus.</p><p>The reverse refers to the conquest of the Volscian city Privernum (today’s Priverno) by the consul Gaius Plautius Decianus in 329 BC, when the Volsci revolted against Rome.&nbsp; PREIVE refers to Privernum.</p><p><br /></p><p>Roman Republic. M. Aemilius Scaurus and Pub. Plautius Hypsaeus, AR Denarius</p><p>Rome, 58 BC</p><p>17.40 mm, 3.85 g</p><p>Crawford 422/1b; Aemilia 8; Plautia 8; Sydenham 913; RCV (Sear I) 379; BMC 3878;</p><p>Hendin 740;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Ob.: M SCAVR / AED CVR, above camel standing to r. Nabatean king Aretas kneeling to right before camel, holding reins and olive branch, (EX)-S•C across fields; (REX ARETAS) in ex. Border of dots</p><p>Rev.: P HVPSAEV(S) / AED CVR, Jupiter driving quadriga to l., holding reins and hurling thunderbolt; scorpion in lower left field; (CAPTVM) in r. field, C HVPSAE COS / (PREIVER) below; border of dots</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy of Marc Breitsprecher</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1552382[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your Aretas or anything relevant <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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