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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1676926, member: 42773&quot;]Rabbel II enjoyed a long reign (70-106 AD), but he was the last of the Nabataean kings. During his tenure, Nabataea had already become a <i>de facto</i> Roman province, and after 106, the history of the Nabataeans becomes the history of <i>Arabia Petraea</i>.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here he is in a jugate portrait with queen Gamilat.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s22.postimg.org/ygl3plpsh/rabbel1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse of the coin spells RBAL at the top (read from right to left. Gamilat&#039;s name is between the cornucopiae, GMLT. I&#039;ve highlighted the Aramaic letters in alternating colors since it&#039;s a bit harder to read...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s9.postimg.org/57zc57ahr/rabbel1script.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Once Rome officially took over, the Nabataean coinage was demonetized, and there is evidence that the earlier silver drachms were either overstruck with Roman provincial designs, or melted altogether, which might account for their present scarcity.</p><p><br /></p><p>So who would have made this fouree denarius of Trajan with <i>Provincia Arabia</i> devices? The obvious guess is the Nabataeans themselves. After all, they already had the minting technology in Petra, and where would this coinage be more needed? Was it overstruck on a Nabataean drachm? Was it sanctioned by Rome? Unfortunately, as with all fourees, all we have is questions...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s9.postimg.org/re1tegtzz/fouree1a.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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