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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2124143, member: 42773"]And it's a very respectable example of the type. There are a seemingly endless number of varieties among these minute bronzes of Aretas IV. It would appear that, as long as the coins had a bust and double cornucopias, the engravers were given free reign otherwise...</p><p><br /></p><p>Line between cornucopias, heth between, o below.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]403228[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>X between. X is the numeral 4 in Nabataean. It is not known whether this number signifies a date, or something else.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]403229[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Dot / Heth.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]403230[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Ligature of heth and resh, for Haratat (Aretas).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]403231[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Flowering pomegranate between cornucopias.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]403232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>o between.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]403233[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To name a few. Meshorer and Schmitt-Korte catalog around 50 varieties. These are some of the few I've been able to hunt down.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2124143, member: 42773"]And it's a very respectable example of the type. There are a seemingly endless number of varieties among these minute bronzes of Aretas IV. It would appear that, as long as the coins had a bust and double cornucopias, the engravers were given free reign otherwise... Line between cornucopias, heth between, o below. [ATTACH=full]403228[/ATTACH] X between. X is the numeral 4 in Nabataean. It is not known whether this number signifies a date, or something else. [ATTACH=full]403229[/ATTACH] Dot / Heth. [ATTACH=full]403230[/ATTACH] Ligature of heth and resh, for Haratat (Aretas). [ATTACH=full]403231[/ATTACH] Flowering pomegranate between cornucopias. [ATTACH=full]403232[/ATTACH] o between. [ATTACH=full]403233[/ATTACH] To name a few. Meshorer and Schmitt-Korte catalog around 50 varieties. These are some of the few I've been able to hunt down.[/QUOTE]
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