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<p>[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2124208, member: 42773"]The bronze does not carry any silver. I have not completed a metrology of the coins of Aretas IV yet. The different sizes were minted at the same time, and do indeed represent denominations. Some are even marked "whole," "half," and "quarter." It's possible that the X on one of my coins denotes not 4, but 1/4.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have sketched-out a metrology of the bronzes of Malichus I, which you can find <a href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/MalichusMetrology.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/MalichusMetrology.html" rel="nofollow">here</a>. This didn't take long, since there are so few recorded pieces. But these denominations, A, B, and C, apply to the coins of this king only. Weights went down during Aretas IV's early reign. Then the coinage was reformed and they went up again, then they continued a diminution through the end of the empire. </p><p><br /></p><p>So any reasonable metrology has to be specific to a particular period, as with any coinage. The denominations A, B, and C of Malichus I and Obodas II will be different than those of Aretas IV, Malichus II and Rabbel II.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="John Anthony, post: 2124208, member: 42773"]The bronze does not carry any silver. I have not completed a metrology of the coins of Aretas IV yet. The different sizes were minted at the same time, and do indeed represent denominations. Some are even marked "whole," "half," and "quarter." It's possible that the X on one of my coins denotes not 4, but 1/4. I have sketched-out a metrology of the bronzes of Malichus I, which you can find [URL='http://www.nabataeannumismatics.com/MalichusMetrology.html']here[/URL]. This didn't take long, since there are so few recorded pieces. But these denominations, A, B, and C, apply to the coins of this king only. Weights went down during Aretas IV's early reign. Then the coinage was reformed and they went up again, then they continued a diminution through the end of the empire. So any reasonable metrology has to be specific to a particular period, as with any coinage. The denominations A, B, and C of Malichus I and Obodas II will be different than those of Aretas IV, Malichus II and Rabbel II.[/QUOTE]
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