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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1650192, member: 42773&quot;]As an addendum to this thread, after reading <i>Coinage of the Caravan Kingdoms, </i>I&#039;ve&nbsp; become aware of the proto-Nabataean coins that were over-struck on&nbsp; Ptolemaic hosts, prior to the first issues of Aretas II. Hoover and&nbsp; Barkay make a compelling argument that these coins can be dated between&nbsp; 250 and 200 BC (pages 198-199).</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s13.postimage.org/mhso6cr7r/cck.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So it turns out that the first issues of Aretas II were following an earlier precedent regarding the Athena/Nike typology. I don&#039;t own any of these proto-Nabataean coins, but I am attaching images of two examples...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s14.postimage.org/nva5e1cgx/protonab1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s11.postimage.org/z2e4b78mr/protonab2.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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