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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GY77863
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 175 - 164 B.C., Quasi-Municipal Antioch Issue
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |IV| |Epiphanes,| |175| |-| |164| |B.C.,| |Quasi-Municipal| |Antioch| |Issue|, The villain of Hanukkah. Antiochos IV assumed divine epithets, which no other Hellenistic king had done, such as Theos Epiphanes (God Manifest). His subjects made a pun on his name, calling him Epimanes (madman). In 168 B.C., Antiochus IV ordered the Jews to worship Greek gods. The Temple in Jerusalem was seized and dedicated to Zeus. The Jews revolted and after three years of fighting, Judah Maccabee defeated the Seleukid army. Hanukkah, the Festival of Lights, commemorates the rededication of the Temple in 165 B.C. According to the Talmud, there was only enough consecrated olive oil to fuel the eternal flame in the Temple for one day. Miraculously, the oil burned for eight days, enough time to prepare and consecrate fresh oil.
GY77863. Bronze AE 20, Houghton-Lorber II 1418(1)h; Babelon Rois 635, HGC 9 656 (R1), BMC Seleucid p. 40, 65 var. (H vice X); Houghton CSE 131 var. (monogram vice X), F, black patina with brassy high-points on obverse, well centered on a tight flan, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 8.244g, maximum diameter 20.0mm, die axis 0o, 168 - 164 B.C.; obverse radiate and diademed head of Antiochos IV right, one diadem flying up behind, the other falling forward over shoulder; reverse ANTIOXOY/TΩN / Π-POΣ ΔAΦNHI, Zeus standing slightly right, head left, raising wreath in extended right hand, resting left hand on side, X (control) outer left; from the Butte College Foundation, ex Lindgren; rare; SOLD











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