ROMAN CLIENT STATES
    The Romans were nothing if not pragmatic.  If something was working in some zone where they found themselves they would tend to let it keep going.  This was particularly true in the east, where there were all sorts of local regimes doing a tolerable job.  During most of Roman history there was some emergency going on somewhere.  Anything they didn't have to do because someone else was doing it for them was fine with them.

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 sold 10/29/2011
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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 sold 9/21/2011
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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 sold
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