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<p>[QUOTE="Quant.Geek, post: 2452119, member: 74799"]It is a common mistake as they look similar. Here is the attribution from one of my coins. Most people will not have <a href="http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10880.pdf" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10880.pdf" rel="nofollow">Unicode Nabataean</a> fonts, which I have, so I transcribed this coin in both Nabataean and Hebrew (which is used as a substitute in a lot of scholarly journals) ...</p><p><br /></p><p>You can read more about the Nabataean script here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_alphabet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_alphabet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_alphabet</a></p><p><br /></p><p>and the differences between the three scripts here:</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet</a></p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://static-numista.com/forum/images/571bfc68981b9.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Quant.Geek, post: 2452119, member: 74799"]It is a common mistake as they look similar. Here is the attribution from one of my coins. Most people will not have [url=http://unicode.org/charts/PDF/U10880.pdf]Unicode Nabataean[/url] fonts, which I have, so I transcribed this coin in both Nabataean and Hebrew (which is used as a substitute in a lot of scholarly journals) ... You can read more about the Nabataean script here: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabataean_alphabet[/url] and the differences between the three scripts here: [url]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_alphabet[/url] [IMG]http://static-numista.com/forum/images/571bfc68981b9.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
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