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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > SH32363
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus III the Great, c. 223 - 187 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |III| |the| |Great,| |c.| |223| |-| |187| |B.C.|, Antiochus III resettled 2000 Jewish families from Babylonia into the Hellenistic Anatolian regions of Lydia and Phrygia. He is not the king of the Hanukkah story who was resisted by the Maccabees; rather, that was his son, Antiochus IV. On the contrary, Josephus portrays him as friendly towards the Jews of Jerusalem and cognizant of their loyalty to him (see Antiquities, chapter 3, sections 3-4), in stark contrast to the attitude of his son. In fact, Antiochus III lowered taxes, granted subventions to the Temple, and let the Jews live, as Josephus puts it, "according to the law of their forefathers."
SH32363. Silver tetradrachm, SNG Spaer 737, Newell ESM 243, rare in this grade, gVF, some roughness, Seleukia on the Tigris (Bagdad, Iraq) mint, weight 16.614g, maximum diameter 29.6mm, die axis 0o, obverse Antiochos' diademed head right, fillet border; reverse BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY, Apollo naked seated left on omphalos, examining arrow in right hand, resting left hand on grounded bow, monograms left and right; rare in this grade; SOLD











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