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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Greek Coins| > |Hellenistic Monarchies| > |Seleucid Kingdom| > GY93771
Seleukid Kingdom, Seleukos IV Philopater, 187 - 175 B.C.
|Seleucid| |Kingdom|, |Seleukid| |Kingdom,| |Seleukos| |IV| |Philopater,| |187| |-| |175| |B.C.|, Seleucus IV Philopator ruled Syria (then including Cilicia and Judea), Mesopotamia, Babylonia and Nearer Iran (Media and Persia). To help pay the heavy war-indemnity exacted by Rome, he sent his minister Heliodorus to Jerusalem to seize the Jewish temple treasury. On his return, Heliodorus assassinated Seleucus, and seized the throne for himself.
GY93771. Bronze serrated AE 23, Houghton-Lorber II 1315(3)d; SNG Spaer 874; De Clercq 73; BMC Seleucid p. 32, 23 var. (AI); HGC 9 584, gF, well centered, central dimples, Antioch (Antakya, Turkey) mint, weight 11.753g, maximum diameter 22.5mm, die axis 0o, 187 - 175 B.C.; obverse laureate head of Apollo right, archaized style, hair rolled behind, locks falling down neck, ME monogram (primary control) behind; reverse Apollo standing left, leaning with left elbow resting on tripod, examining arrow in right hand, BAΣIΛEΩΣ (king) downward on right, ΣE-ΛEYKOY downward on left, AN (secondary control) inner left; from the Errett Bishop Collection; SOLD



  






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