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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GY82653
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 175 - 164 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |IV| |Epiphanes,| |175| |-| |164| |B.C.|, This unusual quasi-municipal type with no royal name is one of few Seleukid bronzes specifically mentioned by B. V. Head in Historia Numorum.

Antiochus IV took the name "Epiphanes," meaning "God Manifest." His subjects made a pun on his name, calling him "Epimanes" or "madman."
GY82653. Bronze AE 17, Houghton-Lorber II 1441, Houghton CSE 345, SNG Spaer 1068, Babelon Rois 692 (normal Z), HGC 9 696 (R2-R3), F, scratches, deposits, corrosion, obverse off center, Tripolis (Tripoli, Lebanon) mint, weight 6.136g, maximum diameter 17.2mm, die axis 0o, 166 - 165 B.C.; obverse jugate heads right of Antiochos IV, radiate and diademed, and Laodice IV, diademed; reverse TPIΠOΛITΩN curving clockwise above, Dioscuri charging right on horseback with couched spears, ZMP (Z appearing as I, Seleukid era year 147) below; extremely rare; SOLD











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