Newps: More Early Nabataeans

=> good memory, Jango .... yup, this thread had a few CT member photos

 

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Ooops, sorry JA => I totally ransacked your Nabataean thread (sometimes I get a wee bit side-tracked)

 

We always knew you were a person of great culture.

 

Aaaaaaanyway...

Package from Dubai today with this fabulous and messy overstrike. I've got to chuckle at the fact that somebody struck this coin and said, "Eh...good enough".

Also, another little Bust/Nike type. These are the coins I catalog as Style IIb, that is, modeled after coins of Alexander Balas, but in a very careless style.



I'll post some "nice" Romans later this week, I promise. Just waiting for Santa Claus.

 

Just the other day I was looking at a coin and thinking to myself, "Hmmm, not the best one out there but if I had to give it a grade it would be 'Good Enough'."
Maybe in another life I was a messy Nabataean mint worker. These do have a charm of their own.

 

a total mess, but i can still make out what going on ....that's pretty cool really. nice np JA.

santa is coming!?

 

I got a great deal on an as of Trajan, a denarius of Severus Alexander, and a scarce provincial of Geta from Pautalia with a coiled snake. I'm waiting to get the coins in hand because although I got them from a great seller, his pics leave much to be desired.

 

byzanticlaus is coming to town!




ho! ho! ho!

 

I'm going to wrap up this thread with a coin that arrived today - the one that I started the thread with, included a composite of my Proto and Early Nabataeans.


1. Proto-Nabataean Overstrike
AE22, 6.24g; Unknown mint, struck over coin of Ptolemy III.
Obv.: Head of Athena right, wearing crested Corinthian helmet.
Rev.: Nike standing left, holding wreath.
Reference: cf. Schmitt-Korte 6
Notes: These are typically overstruck on smaller coins, weighing approximately 3g. Overstrikes on larger host coins are rare. Whether they circulated at a higher denomination is unknown.

2. The common Proto-Nabataean overstrike, on a smaller host coin of Ptolemy III.

3. Overstruck with unusual orientation to host, obverse to reverse and rotated approximately 180 degrees.

4. Overstruck on Seleucid bronze, possibly unique.

5 and 6. Struck on blank flans, probably at Damascus.

7 and 8. Bust modeled after coins of Alexander Balas.

9 and 10. Barbarous, unknown mints.


It's taken a little over a year for me to assemble this set, and I'm quite pleased with it.

 

You should be pleased with it, it's a wonderful set!

 

atta-boy, JA ...

... man, you're really owning the good ol' Nabataean category, eh? ...

=> you rock, John Anthony!! .... Here's Johnny!!

 

lol!

 

beautiful set!