Trajan AR Drachm of Bostra, Arabia. AD 113. ΑΥΤΟΚΡ ΚΑΙϹ ΝЄΡ ΤΡΑΙΑΝ ϹЄΒ ΓЄΡΜ ΔΑΚ, laureate head to right, slight drapery on far shoulder / ΔΗΜΑΡΧ ЄΞ ΙϚ ΥΠΑΤ Ϛ, Arabia standing facing, head to left, holding branch over camel to left at feet, and bundle of cinnamon sticks. RPC III 4074 (Arabian mint); Sydenham, Caesarea 185; Metcalf 16. 2.94g, 17mm, 6h.

Commemorates Cornelius Palma's conquest of Arabia Petrea c. 105-6 AD and his establishment of a new province there perhaps a couple of years later (Strack, Traian, pp. 194-5).

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