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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 8523221, member: 87809&quot;]Nicknamed &quot;Grypos&quot; = hook-nose, although on this coin he is called King Antiochus Epiphanes (&quot;the Illustrious&quot;); I wonder why he is called illustrious.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie6" alt=":cool:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>He definitely knew how to party, and a good reason for me to have one of his tetradrachms<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />: </p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;A story of his luxurious parties claims he sent food home with guests who attended banquets, complete with a camel as beast of burden, as well as an attendant to carry the guest himself&quot; (quoted from <a href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Antiochus_VIII_Grypus" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Antiochus_VIII_Grypus" rel="nofollow">https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Antiochus_VIII_Grypus</a>).</p><p><br /></p><p>Tetradrachm, Antiochia ad Orontem, 121/0 – 113 BC</p><p>28 mm, 16.24 g, 1h</p><p>SC 2298.1a; HGC 9, 1197e Newell 367; </p><p><br /></p><p>Ob.: Diademed head of Antiochus to right. Border of fillets</p><p>Rev.: BAΣIΛEΩΣ ANTIOXOY EΠIΦANOYΣ Zeus Ouranios standing l. crescent on head, holding long scepter in l. hand and 8-rayed star in extended r., chlamys over left shoulder; to outer left, IE above A; all within laurel wreath with Δ on ties.</p><p><br /></p><p>Picture courtesy of CNG.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please share your Grypos coins or anything relevant</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]1506678[/ATTACH]</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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