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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 5492851, member: 91461"]What a thrillride to read! How exciting and great detective work! BIG COINGRATS</p><p>I've never heard of this pariah (hope nobody calls me that when I'm dead and gone).</p><p>I could only find one example, that I think is a match, on AC search (I had to run the ID through Google translate):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1239608[/ATTACH]</p><p>SELEUKIDS. Demetrios I Soter, 162-150 BC Chr. Drachma (3.17g). Obv .: head with diadem to the right. Rev .: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, cornucopia, below date ΑΞΡ and two monograms. O. Hoover, Notes on Some Imitations Drachms of Demetrios I Soter from Commagene, AJN 10, 1998, A 16 (Vs. stgl.); SC 1768; HGC 807.</p><p>R! Commagenic addition! vz</p><p>Ex Lanz auction 144, Munich 2008, 294 (there as Mitridates I. Kallinikos).</p><p>The centrifugal developments within the Seleucid rule led to ever more disintegration phenomena. Ptolemy, who came from the Iranian-Armenian dynasty of the Orontids and was Epistates in Commagene from 170-163, made himself in 163 BC. Independent and became the founder of the Commagenic Kingdom. However, he did not mint any coins in his name. However, it fits into the temporal context that under the rule of Demetrius I Soter, imitations of the official coins appear, which are located in the area of the Commagenic Empire and could be related to this withdrawal movement. see Hoover a.O. P.83; SC II 1 p.207.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 5492851, member: 91461"]What a thrillride to read! How exciting and great detective work! BIG COINGRATS I've never heard of this pariah (hope nobody calls me that when I'm dead and gone). I could only find one example, that I think is a match, on AC search (I had to run the ID through Google translate): [ATTACH=full]1239608[/ATTACH] SELEUKIDS. Demetrios I Soter, 162-150 BC Chr. Drachma (3.17g). Obv .: head with diadem to the right. Rev .: ΒΑΣΙΛΕΩΣ ΔΗΜΗΤΡΙΟΥ ΣΩΤΗΡΟΣ, cornucopia, below date ΑΞΡ and two monograms. O. Hoover, Notes on Some Imitations Drachms of Demetrios I Soter from Commagene, AJN 10, 1998, A 16 (Vs. stgl.); SC 1768; HGC 807. R! Commagenic addition! vz Ex Lanz auction 144, Munich 2008, 294 (there as Mitridates I. Kallinikos). The centrifugal developments within the Seleucid rule led to ever more disintegration phenomena. Ptolemy, who came from the Iranian-Armenian dynasty of the Orontids and was Epistates in Commagene from 170-163, made himself in 163 BC. Independent and became the founder of the Commagenic Kingdom. However, he did not mint any coins in his name. However, it fits into the temporal context that under the rule of Demetrius I Soter, imitations of the official coins appear, which are located in the area of the Commagenic Empire and could be related to this withdrawal movement. see Hoover a.O. P.83; SC II 1 p.207.[/QUOTE]
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