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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GY87384
Seleukid Kingdom, Antiochus IV Epiphanes, 175 - 164 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Antiochus| |IV| |Epiphanes,| |175| |-| |164| |B.C.|, The villain of Hanukkah. 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.
GY87384. Bronze dichalkon, Houghton-Lorber II 1509, SNG Spaer 1204, BMC Seleucid 24, Newel ESM p. 272, Houghton CSE 984, HGC 9 637 (R2), F, brown tone, light corrosion, edge crack, Seleukeia on the Tigris (south of Baghdad, Iraq) mint, weight 8.286g, maximum diameter 20.1mm, die axis 0o, c. 173 - 164 B.C.; obverse radiate head of Antiochos IV right, B over X (mark of value = dichalkon) lower left, fillet border; reverse goddess Nicephorus seated left on high backed throne, wearing polos, Nike in extended right hand, long beaked bird left at feet, BAΣIΛEΩΣ downward on right, ANTIOXOY downward on left; rare; SOLD











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