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Use of Ptolemaic Bronze in Nabataea

243, Lot: 167. Estimate $150.
Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

NABATAEA. Anonymous issues. Circa 135/04-9 BC. Æ (21mm, 7.54 g, 7h). Petra(?) mint. Helmeted head of Athena right, Nike standing left, holding cornucopia and wreath. Cf. Meshorer, Nabataea 1-4 (for type); Schmitt-Korte II 5-6 (with overstriking). VF, dark green patina with earthen highlights. Overstruck on a Ptolemaic bronze issue, likely Ptolemy II or III, with much of the undertype visible. Rare as such.


The use of Ptolemaic bronzes as flans for early Nabataean coinage is well demonstrated by overstrikes. Interestingly, one often encounters a reversal of obverse and reverse of the undertype in relation to the overstrike.