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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1677055, member: 42773&quot;]I don&#039;t really have a theory - just questions. I think I expressed myself poorly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The denarius is clearly a fouree as some of the silver is flaking off, exposing the bronze or copper layer.</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s tempting to guess that it was made somewhere in Arabia as it copies a provincial Arabian type, but of course that&#039;s just a guess. It would be good to know if these were found in any quantity in Arabia Petraea, but I don&#039;t have any information on that.</p><p><br /></p><p>I confused my terms when I was talking about possible overstrikes - but a few sources suggest that the older drachms were in fact occasionally overstruck. I have yet to find one though. By the time of Rabbel, the Nabataean drachm had become quite debased, so it would have made for a rather sorry denarius.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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