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Message:: [QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2303214, member: 42773"]1. No need for a drum roll. I warned you all that this would be a letdown. When I first started collecting Nabataean coinage and acquired Meshorer's analysis/catalog Qedem 3, I resigned myself to never owning certain rare issues. For instance, there is only one known Damascene tetradrachm issued by Aretas III (in the BMC). The following coin is an issue I also never expected to own. This is the small denomination bronze of Damascus. (You can read the history of these coins on my website <a href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/Aretasintro.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/Aretasintro.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>, and on the following two pages.) Meshorer, in all his collection hopping, could only hunt down two examples, one in the Cabinet de Médailles (his plate coin), and another in the Glasgow Museum. My colleague Arados, at FORVM, managed to hunt down a pic of the example in the Glasgow Museum. That accounts for the two previously known coins. My coin is the third published example of the type. No doubt there are others out there, but they have yet to surface. This coin is so nondescript, that likely other specimens are mis-attributed as Seleucid issues, the only difference between this coin and others of its type being the name APETOY (Aretas) on the reverse. [ATTACH=full]462911[/ATTACH] Nabataean Kingdom: Aretas III, 83-62 BCAE18, 3.56g, 12h; Damascus Mint, 83/82-71 BCObv.: Diademed head of Aretas III right.Rev.: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ/ΑΡΕΤΟΥ; Nike in guise of Tyche, turreted, standing left, winged, holding scepter in left hand and waving wreath to her front with right; monogram AP in right field.Reference: Meshorer 8Ex-Jacquier, Kehl, lot 8, spring 1988, no. 130[/QUOTE]

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