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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4496464, member: 110350&quot;]This coin doesn&#039;t fit any of my other animal reverse threads, so I guess I have to start a new one!&nbsp; It&#039;s only my second Roman provincial coin, but I couldn&#039;t resist.</p><p><br /></p><p>Trajan AR Drachm, 114-116 AD, Arabia Bostra. Obv. Laureate, draped and cuirassed bust of Trajan right, with paludamentum, seen from rear, AYTOKP KAIC NЄP TPAIANѠ APICTѠ CЄB ΓЄPM ΔAK [<i>equivalent of&nbsp; IMP CAES NER TRAIANO OPTIMO AVG GERM DAC</i>] / Rev. Bactrian (two-humped) camel, walking left, ΔHMAPX ЄΞ YΠATO ς [<i>equivalent of TR P COS VI (sixth consulship)</i>]. RPC [<i>Roman Provincial Coinage</i>] Vol. III 4076 (2015); RPC Online at <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&amp;number=4076" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&amp;number=4076" rel="nofollow">https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/search/browse?volume_id=3&amp;number=4076</a>, SNG ANS VI 1158; Sydenham [<i>The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia </i>(1933)] 205.&nbsp; 19 mm., 3.10 g.&nbsp; (<i>Purchased from Kenneth W. Dorney.</i>)</p><p><br /></p><p>(Please let me know if my statement regarding the Latin equivalent of the legends is correct.)</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115392[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the beginning of the entry in RPC III (the rest of it is a continuation of the list of examples of the coin):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115393[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the entry for this coin in Sydenham, <i>The Coinage of Caesarea in Cappadocia</i> (1933):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115394[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s the entry in the online version of RPC III:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1115395[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know of many ancient coins depicting camels other than this one and its varieties, except for a couple of Republican denarii (neither of which I have yet!), and at least one other Trajan provincial coin, showing Arabia standing with a small camel (RPC III 4073).&nbsp; But I&#039;d love to see any ancient coins with camels that anyone may have.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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