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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1679783, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;d never fault anyone for passing on a Nabataean coin. They simply don&#039;t have the eye-appeal of other coinages. It&#039;s a bit like collecting relics of saints: little bits of bone and scraps of hair and skin, maybe a tooth. It ain&#039;t pretty.</p><p><br /></p><p>But I&#039;m the kind of person that enjoys a puzzle, and the Nabataeans don&#039;t disappoint on that account. What can be known of them can only be known by way of archeology, as they left no literature. Others wrote of them, but that amounts to a record of their foreign relations from the perspective of the foreigners.</p><p><br /></p><p>And the archeology is fairly recent, starting in earnest in the 1920&#039;s. There is still a great deal to be discovered. In fact, several hoards from Petra are yet to be cataloged and released, so it&#039;ll be interesting to see what develops over the next few years.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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