A Few Bronzes from Seleucis and Pieria

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  1. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Well-Known Member

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  3. Youngcoin

    Youngcoin Everything Collector

    Not sure what the picture/article is but it is an error for me.

    EDIT: Very nice it's fixed now and as always very well presented! Beautiful coins!

    Thanks,
    Jacob
     
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  4. GerardV

    GerardV Well-Known Member

    More great stuff.
     
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  5. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Well-Known Member

    Try it again, Jacob and let me know if you're still having the error.
    Thanks! —DR
     
  6. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    I love the coinage of Antioch. If I were to specialize in the collection coins from just one city, it would be Antioch.
     
  7. Youngcoin

    Youngcoin Everything Collector

    I can see it now I edited my previous post.

    Thanks,
    Jacob
     
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  8. Valentinian

    Valentinian Well-Known Member

    As in the OP, here is one of those so-called "star of Bethlehem" coins:

    AntiochStarofBethlehem.jpg
    20-19 mm. 7.70 grams.
    Head of Zeus right
    ram leaping right, looking back, star above
    EΠI ΣIΛANOV ANTIOXEΩN "reign of Silanus (he was legatus) Antioch"
    ΔM below ram = 44 in the Actian dating system = 13/14 AD

    RPC I 4269. McAlee 99.
    Some enthusiasts have tried to connect this type to the Star of Bethlehem, which boosts the value of the type. Scholars seem to think the argument is so thin it is unworthy of comment. That is, most scholars think there is no good reason to connect this type to the biblical story.

    Edit: See below for a link (thanks, @dadams) to a website that supports the "star of Bethlehem" interpretation.
     
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  9. Jwt708

    Jwt708 Well-Known Member

    Nice ones Deacon!
     
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  10. dadams

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  11. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    I wonder why....of all the coins of all the cities...
     
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  12. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    Very nice!
     
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  13. Deacon Ray

    Deacon Ray Well-Known Member

    Thanks, @dadams for the excellent Star of Bethlehem site!
     
  14. John Anthony

    John Anthony Ultracrepidarian

    Lots of interesting variety. You've got all the fascinating civic types, some Seleucid tetradrachms, counterstamped coins from the Pompeian and Caesarean eras (find the Cleopatra counterstamps!), then follows a fantastic portrait series of early emperors on the bronzes with SC reverse. (The celators of Antioch were every bit as adept at lifelike portraits as their imperial counterparts.) Then you've got an entire universe of tetradrachms during the imperial era, and those curious tetrarchical fractional-folles, and then Antioch becomes an imperial mint, and you've got another universe of issues that continues until the fall of the empire. And then you can collect the Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader coins if that's not enough.
     
  15. Mat

    Mat Ancient Coincoholic

    Nice coins, DR!
     
  16. GerardV

    GerardV Well-Known Member

    These are righteously cool coins, and might not even be on the radar for the next ancient collector. Just like what I might fall in love with isn't on the radar of someone else.

    The places to specialize in the ancient coin spectrum seem never ending - and nearly all of them are interesting.
     
  17. LaCointessa

    LaCointessa Well-Known Member

    Thanks, @John Anthony for taking time to answer my question and write this explanation. I put Cleopatra counterstamps and other items from your post on my "to-do research" list.
     
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