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Trajan, 25 January 98 - 8 or 9 August 117 A.D., Bostra, Arabia
Bostra was the northern Nabataean capital, until Trajan annexed the kingdom. It was then capital of Provincia Arabia, where the Third Legio Cyrenaica was garrisoned. The emperor Philip was born in Bostra and designated it a metropolis. This type was almost certainly struck with silver from the Nabatean treasury. Some specimens appear to have been overstruck on Nabatean drachms.RP92423. Silver drachm, cf. Metcalf Tell Kalak 15 - 17 (years 16 - 18), SNG ANS 6 1156 (also date illegible), SNG Cop -, VF, fantastic bold "caricature" portrait, dark old cabinet tone, slightly off center, light marks, edge crack, Bostra (Bosra, Syria) mint, weight 3.082g, maximum diameter 18.1mm, die axis 210o, Jan 112 - Aug 114 A.D.; obverse AYTOKP KAIC NEP TPAIAN CEB ΓEPM ΔAK (Imperator Caesar Nerva Augustus Germanicus Dacicus), laureate bust right, slight drapery on left shoulder; reverse ΔHMAPX EΞ Iς (or IZ, or IH) YΠAT ς (holder of Tribunitian power for 16 (or 17, or 18) years, consul for the 6th time), Arabia standing facing, head left, wearing chiton, peplos and stephane, branch downward in right hand, bundle of cinnamon sticks in left hand, camel left in background on left; from the Errett Bishop Collection; SOLD
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