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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1662131, member: 42773&quot;]I&#039;ve been examining the varieties of Meshorer 1 and 2, but before I post anything about that, I&#039;d like to offer a composite photo of a handful of the so-called proto-Nabataean coins. None of these pieces are mine - they&#039;re images that I&#039;ve collected from the web. They are all Athena/Nike types struck over Ptolemaic hosts. As you can see, the size and weight of the coins in my composite vary within a narrow tolerance, except for the weight of #2, but Hoover and Barkay record a wide variation in CCK, from 15 to 21.9mm, and from 2.54 to 8.65g.</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://postimage.org/image/4gtp3caqb/full/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/image/4gtp3caqb/full/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s13.postimage.org/gvgh3o28n/comp.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The Nabataean caravan routes were extensive and far-reaching, and the traders likely encountered coinage of many nations, so it&#039;s likely that most bronze was traded by weight. That might account for the variance in the weight of the host coins (and later flans) - it would make sense to have coins of varying sizes for the sake adding up a certain weight of bronze.</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://s16.postimage.org/5j1fynfh1/Nabateens_Routes.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>However, I&#039;m not completely convinced of the argument that Hoover and Barkay make for dating the proto-Nabataean overstrikes to the third century BC, and I&#039;ll explain that in a later post.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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