THRACE
    The Hellenistic kingdom of Thrace broke up in the 1st century BC, conquered by Rome, Augustus created a client kingdom.
THRACE, Rhoemetalkes I, 11 BC-12 AD, 22mm bronze, SGI-5396, head of Augustus R / conjoined heads of Rhoe & queen R, aG/aF $17.00 sold 12/21/2007
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THRACE, Rhoemetalkes II, 19-37 AD, 18mm bronze, SGI-5404v1, ND (c. 26-37 AD), head of Tiberius R / head of Rhoe R, weak legends, VG $21.00
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THRACE, Rhoemetalkes II, 19-37 AD, 18mm bronze, SGI-5404v1, ND (c. 26-37 AD), head of Tiberius R / head of Rhoe R, porous aF $28.00
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PONTUS & BOSPORUS
    This political entity was a remnant of the Pontic kingdom of Mithridates.  The last of that line was defeated by Pompey, whose son held on to a rump state for a couple of decades.  The rest was given my Mark Antony to one Polemo, who founded a dynasty.  Pontus was annexed by Nero, leaving the later dynasty with a small but strategic strip of territory into the 3rd century AD.

BOSPORUS, Rhoemetalkes I, c. 133-154 AD, 18mm bronze, SGI-nl, bust Hadrian R / bust Rhoe R, F+ $27.00 sold 12/21/2007
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BOSPORUS, Eupator, 154-171 AD, gold stater, SGI-5471v, bust king R / busts of M. Aurelius & Lucius Verus facing each other, staff & pellet between, QNU = 459 (162 AD), VF $1,200.00
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NABATAEA
    This was an Arab kingdom in what is now Jordan, capital Petra, the city carved out of a mountain.  The Romans had "relations" with Nabatea the way the Russians have a relationship with Belarus.  By the time of Trajan there was so little left of the dynasty that it gave up and became a Roman province.

NABATAEA, Malichus II, c. 40-71 AD, 16mm bronze, SGI-5702,  M-140, jugate busts of king & queen R / double cornucopiae, aVF $33.00
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