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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2132226, member: 42773&quot;]The first is a Style 2 Athena/Nike bronze. The Nabataeans were imitating the Seleucid issues of Alexander Balas with these coins, more so than the Alexandrian staters. (Hence the bowler hat, which is a Boeotian helmet as opposed to Athena&#039;s Corinithian helmet.) I have a page on Style 2 coins <a href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/earlyk2.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/earlyk2.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Some of them were well-made, others, like yours, were carelessly produced.</p><p><br /></p><p>Your second coin is a Hoover Group B tessera. He describes these tesserae as &quot;<i>Obv</i>.: Head of Nabataean ruler (Obodas III?) r., with hair in cascading rows of curls; dotted border. <i>Rev</i>.: Winged Nike standing l., holding palm branch (or cornucopia?) in l. hand and wreath in r.; dotted border.&quot; Here is a sample of his Group B plate coins...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]406183[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s not Athena on these issues, but a Nabataean ruler. Looks like Obodas, but it could be Aretas IV - the busts on his early bronze have a similar, archaic style.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do in fact have another Group B tessera with a nice portrait, but the reverse is quite weak. Still, you can make out enough on the reverse to determine that it&#039;s Nike...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]406184[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The tesserae can&#039;t really be related typologically to the bronze Nike/Athena coins simply because they are different in too many ways.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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