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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 8273571, member: 128351&quot;][ATTACH=full]1460478[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here is my Aretas camel. It is in good condition but (there is always a but) it is off-centred so the exergue <i>Rex Aretas</i> is off-flan. At least one can see the round shape of the die, and say for sure that the Aretas side is the reverse and the quadriga the obverse. </p><p>The Arab king is wearing a non-Roman robe, kneeling like in the attitude of supplication and extending a branch (which must symbolize peace). This image was noticed by the Romans when these coins were issued and put in circulation in 58 BC. Two years later in 56 it 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 it was imitated again by Aulus Plautius who litterally copied the Aretas reverse with the camel, but with the legend <i>Bacchius Iudaeus</i>, probably Aristobulus. </p><p>Kneeling and extending branch ( = begging for peace) was the conventional attitude of the foreign ruler asking to become &quot;<i>amicus et socius Populi Romani</i>&quot;, a title granted by the Senate. In other terms, a client-king.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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