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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 4415432, member: 19463&quot;]This is the less common but less popular of the two versions of this coin.&nbsp; People seem to prefer the ones with the crayfish and legend REX ARETAS under the camel on the obverse.&nbsp; Either is interesting as an example of the first (I believe) Roman coin commemorating the action of the moneyer himself (receiving the submission of Aretas) rather than an act of his ancestor.&nbsp; This was walking a thin line but short of putting his own image on the coin (ask Caesar how that went).</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Scaurus_(praetor_56_BC)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Scaurus_(praetor_56_BC)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Aemilius_Scaurus_(praetor_56_BC)</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1108177[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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