Yet Another Forum Game - Numismatic Go Fish!

Is this the list we will be going by?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_civil_wars

I'm not entirely confident (the dates involved confuse me), but I think this should qualify...



Seleucid Empire, AE unit (AE18)
Antiochos VII Euergetes (Sidetes), probably in opposition to Diodotus Tryphon
Dated 174 SE (ΔΟΡ) = 139/8 BC
Numista 140412, other references at link

Here's the chronology as I understand it from the Wikipedia description:
- July 138 BC: Demetrios II exiled by Tryphon, who enjoys sole rule for a few weeks
- early August 138 BC: Antiochus VII declares himself the legitimate heir of Demetrios II, gets immediate support from many parts of the empire
- late August (or early September?) 138 BC: Antiochus VII conquers the capital (Antioch), Tryphon retreats to Dor
- late 138 BC, date unclear: Tryphon dies in Apamea?

The year 174 SE ended on October 5, 138 BC, so this coin was issued at least that early, and it seems likely that Tryphon was, at least, still alive.
However, the rest of the chronology seems to have been heavily compressed (possibly by confusion between different varieties of the Seleucid era), so I'm not actually sure what happened when. There's way too much reported to have happened in that one August; could they even communicate that fast at the time?
Note that the Jews' "one hundred and seventy-fourth year" is 138/7 BC, not 139/8 BC. They're not saying it happened before October: they're saying it happened after April.

All look good so far. bd251, IIRC the bolsheviks imposed a communist legislature in Finland in 1917, so that would certainly apply, as well as being a part of Russia.

I shall do the same...

1863 Indian Head cent

Forgot I had this one. Darth sent it to me with an Ike I bought from him. Not as old as my first submission though.

1864 Two Cents

And with Princetane's Commenwealth Half Crown we close the contest, with the laurels going to January1May. Take it away J1M.

Neat coin @Princetane!
I'd probably want better pics, and/or a more definite ID (and/or a better explanation of the civil war in question), but I don't have a ready idea right now anyway.

As such, with the second best score even if your late entry doesn't end up counting, you're next in line if I fail to think of anything in the next day or two.
(And I might well end up forfeiting it to you before that, especially if the better pics and/or explanations do indeed come in.)

[EDIT: slightly clarified the explanation.]