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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4498189, member: 110350&quot;]For a specific example which seems to confirm your comment about similarity, and raises the same questions -- although I don&#039;t think the provincial versions were minted in Rome; it seems clear that they were minted in Arabian mints -- compare the Roman provincial &quot;Arabia with camel&quot; drachm I posted above (RPC III 4073) (as well as your coin) with the Roman imperial sestertius with an almost identical reverse (RIC II 466) posted above by [USER=10613]@Victor_Clark[/USER].&nbsp; There&#039;s also a denarius version (RIC II 142(D), RSC 89); see <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/trajan/RIC_0142.jpg" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/trajan/RIC_0142.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/trajan/RIC_0142.jpg</a>.&nbsp; Can anyone tell from the respective legends which came first, or if the imperial and provincial versions were issued at the same time?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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