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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1780462, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;ve added another of these &quot;Arab head&quot; coins to my collection today.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s9.postimg.org/kkc8q8tlb/aretasarab.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In CCK, Oliver Hoover suggests that a coin of similar portraiture properly belongs to Aretas III, and I&#039;m inclined to agree. Although the style is barbarous, there&#039;s a obviously a radical departure from any attempt to portray Athena, and these coins simply don&#039;t belong in that group. Neither are they anomalies, because even a quick glance at the three coins I&#039;ve posted in this thread shows that there are no die matches. An intentional style was being developed here.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>In fact, after looking at hundreds of early Nabataean coins, I believe they need to be re-categorized in light of all the pieces that have recently come out of the Israeli antiquities market. I might attempt something like that shortly and see what you guys think.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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