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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;medoraman, post: 2034807, member: 26302&quot;]Interesting coin. The ANA magazine had a writeup of these not long ago. Qatabian coins are much rarer than Sabean and Himyarite successors. I always find progenitor civilizations and their successors interesting. In the west it was the Greeks, in Arabia it was Qatabians, just like SE Asia was Funan. Such progenitor civilizations cannot be underestimated, as they set the tone and expectations for all that followed. Think of Rome. Does anyone think they really would have had such beautiful art and advanced engineering if it weren&#039;t for the Greeks? That is an example of the effect of a progenitor civilization, it sets up expectations for all subsequent civilizations in the area.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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