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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1707054, member: 42773&quot;]I wish there was a smoking gun. It would be nice to have an inscription that said, &quot;King Aretas distributed tokens of largesse at such and such festival,&quot; or, &quot;These coins were made for spending.&quot; I don&#039;t see any sort of strong argument one way or another, at least when it comes to the Nabataean tesserae. I&#039;m sure the situation is quite different when it comes to the Greeks and Romans, who were as copious about their writings as the Nabataeans were stingy.</p><p><br /></p><p>On the subject of contemporary accounts of tesserae being used as tokens, Hoover does cite a few sources that include Suetonius. I haven&#039;t looked them up, and you&#039;re probably well aware of them anyway. So I have to ask, is there any conclusive evidence that the Roman tesserae may have been used as tokens in the way Hoover describes?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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