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<p>[QUOTE="7Calbrey, post: 3722694, member: 38412"]The kingdom of Nabataea was renown during the last 3 centuries BC. It flourished in the first century AD especially in Christ Time, and established Petra(now in Jordan) as their capital. Under the Roman patronage, the kingdom had stretched even to Damascus before it was occupied by Trajan in 105 AD to become a Roman colony named Arabia. </p><p>The following coin is Nabataean but it strangely includes Greek letters, contrary to the early native Arabic which was basically derived from Aramaic. I wonder if there were any kinds of Nabataean provincial coins?? It weighs nearly 4 grams.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]997910[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]997912[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="7Calbrey, post: 3722694, member: 38412"]The kingdom of Nabataea was renown during the last 3 centuries BC. It flourished in the first century AD especially in Christ Time, and established Petra(now in Jordan) as their capital. Under the Roman patronage, the kingdom had stretched even to Damascus before it was occupied by Trajan in 105 AD to become a Roman colony named Arabia. The following coin is Nabataean but it strangely includes Greek letters, contrary to the early native Arabic which was basically derived from Aramaic. I wonder if there were any kinds of Nabataean provincial coins?? It weighs nearly 4 grams. [ATTACH=full]997910[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]997912[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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