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It's definitely an Antiochus. Can;t say offhand which number.
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Antiochos...now I can read the inscription!  I knew I would get blindsided by the obvious.  |
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I think it might be this one but I'm not a 100%  |
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We have a winner! Nicely done Doucet!
Antiochus IV AE 15mm. 3.67 grams.
Ob: Radiate head of Antiochus IV, right in field behind a monogram, astragal border.
Rev:'ΝΤΙΟΧΟΥ β'ΣΙΛΕΩΣ, female deity seated left, on throne with high poles on back, seen in frontal view, her right hand out-stretched holds small winged Nike, left holding wreath, bird left at feet of deity border of dots.
First published by Barag as a coin struck at Jerusalem (it was listed as such when I bought it), but more recent evidence suggests that this coin was struck in Samaria.
Who was Antiochus IV? AKA, Antiochus Epiphanes or 'God Made Manifest'. Well, first he was a Seleucid king and in about 168 BCE he stormed Jerusalem, looted the Temple, killed thousands of Jews and forbade worship and religious traditions of their God and made the Jew's worship his gods. He would go as far as checking to see if the parents of new borns were circumcised as was their tradition. If they were, he had them all killed. However in 167 BCE, there rose up an old man named Mattathias the Hasmonean, along with his sons and waged a successful guerilla against the Seleucid's for about three years. Finally throwing their yoke off them. They liberated Jerusalem in 164 BCE and cleansed the temple and observed a festival for eight days. We know it now as the festival of Chanukah or Hanukka. Also known as the Maccabean Revolt, for Judah Maccabee who became the leader after his father Mattathias died. Maccabee meant the 'Hammer'. And this started the Hasmonean Dynasty. So there you go. The history behind the coin. Good work Doucet.
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BTW Doucet, that is it and a much better copy than mine.
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Must give credit where credit is do. Hendin, fifth edition, #1129. Sorry Dave!
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Interesting history too! I have heard about the Maccabean revolt before, but the coin gives it context.
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Just as an aside DVCollector, do you read Greek? I'm assuming you do.
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Thanks, oxos
I couldn't have found it without your hint, but with it I just started following a trail, eliminating possibilities, looking for an image that matched and finally matched the inscription in the left field. Then I was pretty sure.
I think yours is a very attractive coin, and a nice patina too.
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Doucet => wow, good job! Man, you guys are absolutely amazing at this game! ... I had in narrowed-down to being either an Antiochos, or a Rorschach ink-blot!  |
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Thanks Doucet. I like my coin as well. I picked it up for a fraction of the value attributed in Hendin (although I think value is really relative to supply and demand.)
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Just as an aside DVCollector, do you read Greek? I'm assuming you do. Sure--if I can pick out all the letters, otherwise I resort to pattern-recognition.  |
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Works for me! Thanks for playing the game, as to all who did! You guys rock!
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