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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GY110614
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' victory at the Battle of Panium in 198 B.C. transferred control of Judaea from Ptolemaic Egypt to the Seleukid Kingdom. Specimens of this type have been found in Jerusalem. Ptolemy signed a conciliatory treaty with Antiochus in 195 B.C., leaving the Seleucid king in possession of Coele-Syria and agreeing to marry Antiochus' daughter Cleopatra I. When Antiochus conquered Asia Minor, however, the Romans responded. Antiochus' losses were so great that the whole of his empire was shattered and he was forced to content himself with the region that he had held in the beginning, Syria.
GY110614. Bronze AE 17, Houghton-Lorber I 1089(1), Newell WSM 789, SNG Spaer 272, HGC 9 490 (S), VF, highlighting earthen deposits, Coele Syria, military mint, weight 5.388g, maximum diameter 18.63mm, die axis 90o, 5th Syrian War, 202 - 195 B.C.; obverse Macedonian round shield decorated with facing head of Medusa (gorgoneion) in the center; reverse elephant walking right, anchor above flukes right, BAΣIΛEΩΣ / ΣEΛEYKOY in two lines below; SOLD










REFERENCES

Karoglou, K. Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v.75, no. 3 (Winter, 2017).

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