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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2678821, member: 42773&quot;]Looks good to me, except the drachm could also be Aretas IV and Shaqilat I. Since Malichus II was the son of Aretas IV, their adult portraits look very similar, and if the coins are worn to the point that the text is missing, it becomes difficult to distinguish the two.</p><p><br /></p><p>Incidentally, there were two Shaqilats that appeared on the coinage of three kings. Aretas IV + Shaqilat I, then Malichus also married a woman named Shaqilat, so she is Shaqilat II, and when Malichus died, she ruled as regent for her son Rabbell II and appears on his coinage for the first few years of his reign.</p><p><br /></p><p>Also, the term &quot;sister&quot; may not have been used literally in the context of Nabataean royalty - it may have been just an honorific, sort of like the term brotherhood or sisterhood among non-biologically related but sympathetic persons. But on the other hand, royalty <i>did</i> sometimes marry their kin, so it&#039;s not really certain what&#039;s going on when the term &quot;sister&quot; is used.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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