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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1706573, member: 42773&quot;]In fact, both Obodas III and Aretas IV had to deal with financial challenges stemming from conflicts with Herod the Great and tributes paid to Augustus. The drain on silver was such that Aretas IV struck a series of bronze coins meant to replace the increasingly scarce drachms. I would add my own bit of speculation and say perhaps the tesserae were filling in for the bronze that was filling in for the silver.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s certainly possible in the case of the Nabataean tesserae. Almost all of the pieces can be provenanced to Jordanian excavations, which for now suggests that they circulated in Petra and its environs. However, the amount of archeology exercised upon the Nabataeans is the tiniest tip of the iceberg, so only time will tell.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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