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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 2292707, member: 42773&quot;]Here&#039;s a less than lovely coin, but scarce. The earliest Nabataean coins were issued by Aretas II (c. 103-96 BC), minted at Damascus. They are modeled after the iconography of Alexandrian staters with Athena on the obverse, Nike reverse. Although these little imitative bronzes show no outward evidence of being Nabataean, they always occur in a Nabataean context, mixed in with coins of later rulers. Evidently they were never demonetized, so finding them in any recognizable condition is tough. I discuss these coins on my website <a href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/earlyk1.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/earlyk1.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]459692[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here are better examples as a reference. I didn&#039;t collect the above coin <i>per se</i> - it came along for the ride with some others. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]459694[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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