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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2029861, member: 42773&quot;]Hey boys and girls, I just realized I haven&#039;t bored you with Nabataeans for a while! I&#039;ve been remiss in my duties. Anyway, here&#039;s a very nice, very small bronze of Aretas IV (9 BC - 40 AD). It&#039;s curious that the eagle is the only animal depicted on Nabataean coins, so it must have held some special significance. What that was is largely a matter of conjecture.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Nabatean Kingdom, Aretas IV (9 BC - 40 AD)</b></p><p>AE11, 1.29g; Petra: c.5/6 AD</p><p>Obv.: Eagle standing left in dotted border; heth in right field.</p><p>Rev.: Ligature of heth and resh in center of wreath.</p><p>Reference: Meshorer Nabataea 88; <i>ex-Zach Beasly.</i></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369213[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>These minute coins come with a variety of field marks. This one has a very bold heth on the obverse, and a ligature of heth and resh on the reverse. The left stroke of heth (in red) is used as the downstroke of resh (in blue)...</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]369214[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This ligature denotes the king&#039;s name, as Aretas is spelled heth-resh-taw-taw in Nabataean, or Haratat.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have a few more tiny bronzes to post later, after I take some pics. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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