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Auction 90 23 May 2012
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NABATAEA. Obodas II, with Hagaru I. 30-9 BC. AR Drachm (15mm, 4.49 g, 12h). Dated year 16 (15/4 BC). Jugate diademed busts of Obodas and Hagaru right; Nabataean H to left / Diademed and draped bust of Obodas right; Nabataean 16 and H to left. Meshorer, Nabataea Sup. 3; DCA 965. VF, dark find patina, area of flat strike, a little roughness.
M. Huth, in his article “Some Nabataean Questions Reconsidered” in CCK, persuasively argues that there was no king Obodas II in 62-60 BC, and that all coins in the name of Obodas belong to the king of that name who ruled in 30-9 BC, who should be correctly named Obodas II, not III.
M. Huth, in his article “Some Nabataean Questions Reconsidered” in CCK, persuasively argues that there was no king Obodas II in 62-60 BC, and that all coins in the name of Obodas belong to the king of that name who ruled in 30-9 BC, who should be correctly named Obodas II, not III.