1 Coin - THE NABATAEANS -VERY ANCIENT - 647 BC-40 AD Nice Grade 2 headed coin

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THE NABATAEANS
647 BC-40 AD
2-Headed Very Ancient Coin
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BRONZE
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THIS IS MY LAST  NABATAEAN COIN- THESE ARE GETTING VERY HARD TO FIND
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The Nabataean’s were skilled traders doing business between China, India, the Far East,
Egypt, Syria, Greece and Rome. They dealt in spices, incense, gold, animals, iron,
copper, sugar, medicines, ivory, perfumes and fabrics. They spoke a dialect of Arabic and
later on adopted Aramaic.
In the middle of the first century B.C., an urban civilization was established with Petra as
the capital and center of their caravan trade. Enclosed by towering rocks and watered by a
perennial stream, Petra not only possessed the advantages of a fortress, but controlled the
main commercial routes which passed through it to Gaza in the west, to Basra and
Damascus in the north, to Aqaba and Leuce Come on the red sea, and across the desert to
the Persian Gulf.
The Nabataeans were allies of the first Hasmoneans in their struggles against the
Seleucid monarchs. They then became rivals of the Judaea dynasty in the period of its
splendor, and a chief element in the disorders which invited Pompey's intervention in
Judea. Many Nabataeans were forcefully converted to Judaism by the Hasmonean king
Alexander Jannaeus.
Despite continuous attempts at submission by successive empires: (Seleucid King
Antigonus, the Roman general Pompey, and Judaea King Herod the Great), Petra
remained largely in Nabataea hands until106 A.D., when finally Nabataea was conquered
and incorporated into the Roman Provincia Arabia. While a lack of recorded history
limits knowledge of the ending of the Nabataeans, evidence shows raiding Arab tribes
likely
extinguished what remained of a weakened culture in the late 2nd A.D.
Aretas III was the first to issue coins around 80 B.C. Some silver coins were minted in
the Greek style, but most commonly found today are the irregular, crude bronze coins,
struck with images of kings and queens and cornucopias, between 5-25 mm in diameter,
that circulated in Judaea region. The names of these coins are unknown, but they do
correspond with the common bronze coins issued at the same time in the Greek areas of
influence.
The birth, life and death of Jesus Christ seem to have passed unnoted in the Nabataean kingdom
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though something of the impact of Christ and his followers was clearly felt, and aroused antagonism. During a brief revival of Nabataean rule in Damascus under Aretas IV, the apostle Paul made his famously undignified exit, when 'the governor under King Aretas guarded the city... in order to seize me, but I was let down in a basket through a window in the wall, and escaped his hands'. (2 Cor. 11: 32-33)
Damascus was finally lost to the Nabataeans under Malichus II (AD 40-70), son of Aretas IV. Little is known of him, but according to Josephus he sent the Emperor Titus 1,000 cavalry and 5,000 infantry which took part in the destruction of Jerusalem and the great temple in AD 70.
In that same year Rabbel II, the last of the Nabataean dynasty, came to the throne as a minor, his mother Shaqilath acting as regent for six years. Rabbel, who seems to have preferred the city of Bostra in the north of his kingdom to the ancient capital of Petra in the south, was known as 'hyy wsyzb 'mh' – he who brings life and deliverance to his people. What he delivered his people from remains unclear, but they certainly enjoyed a period of peace and prosperity in the final decades of the Nabataean kingdom.
Judaea to the west, Egypt to the south and Syria to the north had already been mopped up in Rome's territorial expansion and reorganisation. Only Nabataea remained more or less independent, a temptingly rich plum, ripe for the picking.
I would call this a Medium grade or Better (
see photo's and you decide
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